Word: hit-and-run
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...exercises" off Nicaraguan shores, while 3,500 U.S. troops have assembled across the border in Honduras for the largest series of war games ever held in Central America. Most important, the U.S. is continuing to provide covert support to thousands of Nicaraguan insurgents, known as contras (counterrevolutionaries), whose hit-and-run attacks along Nicaragua's northern and southern borders have, according to the Sandinistas, claimed more than 700 lives. President Reagan has justified U.S. support for the contras by accusing the Sandinistas of having "betrayed" their countrymen, calling the junta members "counterfeit revolutionaries who wear fatigues and drive around...
...extent of U.S. involvement in the contras' hit-and-run war against the Sandinista government was underscored last week by a report from Managua that Nicaraguan troops had shot down a U.S. registered DC-3 airplane carrying supplies to insurgents. Though U.S. officials will not acknowledge any role in the fighting, it is no secret that the CIA has played a crucial part in financing and supplying the contras. If the White House has its way, U.S. aid will continue in the coming months...
...saying that after a game you can't get a beer," Dukakis told the crowd in the State House's Gardiner Auditorium, adding, "but if you have a beer don't get behind the wheel of a car." The governor added that his brother was killed by a hit-and-run driver...
...America by giving a speech to an extraordinary joint session of Congress on April 27, the legislators balked at his Salvadoran aid requests. To date Congress has voted only about half of the money the Administration sought. Also during the spring, the right-wing contras stepped up their hit-and-run raids into Nicaragua from bases and training camps in Honduras. By then, it was public knowledge that the CIA was heavily involved in these "covert" operations, training the contras and supplying them with arms. Restive over this far from secret war, congressional leaders demanded to know where the Administration...
...which Salvadoran officers took their units on fruitless guerrilla chases during the day, then returned to their garrisons at night, leaving the Salvadoran countryside to the rebels of the Faraibundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). As a result, the guerrillas have held the initiative in the war, using hit-and-run strikes, mobility and economic sabotage to wear down the battered country...