Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to start thinking about evacuating the contras, figuring out what to do with them now that they won't be fighting a war." Reagan is unlikely ever to admit that. Some close aides see only two alternatives to continued help for the contras: an outright U.S. invasion of Nicaragua or an unsatisfactory political settlement with the Sandinistas. They sometimes talk as if they do not know which would be worse...
...miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval of his boss on the National Security Council staff, John Poindexter, showed a reckless disdain for the laws of the land by creating a covert network to fund the contras in Nicaragua while trading arms to the Iranians...
...George Cave, a former CIA official working with North on the Iran initiative, reported that Ghorbanifar, at a meeting in Paris in early March, had "proposed that we use profits from these deals and others to fund support to the rebels in Afghanistan. We could do the same with Nicaragua." But Cave told the board that neither he nor Ghorbanifar had ever mentioned a diversion...
...subject of U.S. aid for the Contras,Reagan sent Congress a certification that there is"no reasonable prospect" of peaceful settlementand a democratic Nicaragua unless the aid iscontinued. The certification automaticallytriggers $40 million in additional aid unlessCongress disapproves it within 15 days...
...certification to Congress, Reagan saidthat "continued intransigence by Nicaragua hasprevented progress...