Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downtown Boston, black-robed protesters wearing skull masks act as pall- bearers in a mock funeral for Nicaragua's war casualties. A banner reads 7,000 NICARAGUANS MURDERED BY CIA CONTRAS. At a University of Florida rally in Gainesville, students on the other side of the issue call the contras "freedom fighters" and cheer as Marcos Zeledon, a leader of those rebels, decries Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Los Angeles a large crowd gathers to hear liberal Actor Ed Asner debate with Lewis Lehrman, a conservative activist. The subject: "Should the U.S. resume aid to the contras...
...Florida, with its large population of Cuban and Nicaraguan exiles, has been the scene of the most vigorous anti-Sandinista demonstrations. Contra leaders were honored in Miami last month with parties and a parade during an official Nicaraguan Liberty Week. The star attraction was Fernando Chamorro, head of one of the smaller rebel armies. "We are trying to get a little visibility, to let the American public know us," said Chamorro. "We are here with great optimism and hope that the American government, and more important, the American people, will back us in our fight." Other groups arguing the contra...
...American invasion of Nicaragua. But even the Sandinistas, who have raised alarums about a U.S. attack when past exercises were held in Honduras, have stopped talking about one. Intimidation is another matter. "It's a show-the-flag operation," says House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Dante Fascell, a Florida Democrat. The main purpose, he says bluntly, and approvingly, is "to scare the Nicaraguans...
...strong pitching to the offensive prowess, and you've got team good enough to upset Maine, softball powerhouse. Now 8-1 Maine had defeated Florida A & M, Holy Cross, Army, Indians, and Quinnipine...
...Bank afterward, but he is still remembered as the Secretary of Defense who calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student on the Kent State campus in 1970. For years her wanderings and missteps made news. Now married, she works as a bus girl in a Las Vegas casino...