Word: dez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anderson traveled to meet the rebels in the remote Bocay River valley in the department of Jinotega. Ferried to a rendezvous point 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...
...those sources, the U.S. control is indirect. At the top, they say, the Nicaraguan Democratic Front has a "political coordinating committee" made up largely of conservative and moderate Nicaraguans who fled their country during the last three years of Sandinista rule. Also included is Colonel Enrique Bermúdez Varela, a former member of the Somoza National Guard who was his country's military attaché in Washington until the Sandinistas took over...
...campaign. The first, which is composed of former National Guard officers, has been purged of its most brutal elements from the days of the Somoza regime-at the urging of the CIA. The second staff group is made up of members of the Honduran military, plus Colonel Bermúdez and a military representative from Argentina, a country that has also been heavily involved in training and equipping the contras. According to the F.D.N., a key member of the second staff is a man known as Carlos, who is the CIA station chief in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa...
...answered. The six new leaders stressed their opposition to Somoza as well as to the Sandinistas. But the biographical handouts were suspiciously skimpy. The group was an odd mix: from the respectable Lucia Cardenal Salazar, the widow of a Somoza opponent killed by the Sandinistas, to Enrique Bermúdez, a colonel in the National Guard and Somoza's defense attaché in Washington from 1976 to 1979. The Nicaraguan exiles strained credulity when they claimed to know nothing of the F.D.N. raids from Honduras. Acknowledged Cardenal after the clumsy performance: "We were better in rehearsal...
...million residents of the Khuzistan cities under Iraqi attack had reportedly fled either to central Iran or to nearby mountain refuges. One farfetched rumor had it that if the Iraqis captured Ahwaz, the Iranians would then open the gates of the 666-ft.-high dam on the Dez River near Dezful, thereby flooding much of the low-lying plains of Khuzistan...