Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee, after a congressional probe last week into the deaths of two U.S. citizens in a helicopter crash in Nicaragua. The issue was whether the Administration was secretly encouraging private volunteers to join the contra rebels who are battling Nicaragua's Marxist-led government. The U.S. cut off covert assistance to the antigovernment forces last...
...officials, seemed tailored to fit their opposite political purposes. But the incident stirred a new controversy over whether the CIA has been accepting the voluntary help of American civilians to support the contras since last May, when Congress cut off further funding of the CIA's not-so-covert operation in Nicaragua. It also focused attention on the shadowy activity of mercenary fighters−meres, as they call themselves...
...spread of Marxism-Leninism from Nicaragua to the rest of Central America. Meanwhile, leaders of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force of anti-Sandinista rebels known as contras declared they would intensify their guerrilla attacks against the Nicaraguan regime, despite a U.S. congressional cutoff in May of covert Administration aid to the war effort...
...Saavedra, Shultz inaugurated what amounts to a fight-and-talk approach to U.S.-Nicaraguan diplomacy. After years of shunning direct negotiations with the Sandinistas, Shultz agreed to open formal channels of discussion on improving relations. But the Administration made no move to abandon its pressure tactics toward Nicaragua, notably covert support for the contras and the scheduling of nearly continuous U.S. military maneuvers in neighboring Honduras and off the Central American coast. Washington still considered those measures essential for forcing the Sandinistas to halt their export of Marxist revolution, particularly to nearby El Salvador...
...controlled by the rebels about 50 miles from the border with Honduras, he met with the F.D.N.'s top military commander, Enrique Bermúdez Varela. Anderson reported that the rebel troops appeared "well fed, well armed and confident of eventual victory," despite their apparent loss of U.S. covert support. According to Bermudez, the F.D.N. has the supplies to keep its 10,000 members fighting for at least six more months. Some of the support comes from sympathetic Latin American nations, some from private U.S. religious, political and relief organizations. Within the next few weeks, Bermúdez said...