Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delays in making appointments have hurt foreign policy efforts. Your administration was caught completely off-guard when leaders of five Central American countries met in February and agreed to close down Contra military bases in Honduras in exchange for holding free and open elections in Nicaragua next year...
Eduardo Lozano, a former professor of urban planning at Harvard University who has helped rebuild devastated cities in Peru and Nicaragua, said Sunday he will draft a master plan for the city. Lozano and officials in Moscow and Armenia, a Soviet republic, agreed on the plan last week...
Hoffman was 52 when he was found dead last week in his small apartment in New Hope, Pa. He was fully dressed under the bedcovers. An autopsy was inconclusive. In recent years, however, he battled depression. An activist to the end, fighting over the environment and Nicaragua, he found the complacent hum of the present no match for the percussive past...
...said, "The tragedy of Oliver North is of a man who cared so much for freedom in Nicaragua, but forgot about the demands of freedom and democracy here at home...
Gorbachev also reaffirmed that the Soviet Union will continue supplying weaponry to Nicaragua's leftist government as long as the United States continues to arm other Central American countries. The issues remains a major sore point in relations between Washington and Moscow...