Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev arranged an evening arrival for the summit, taking place against a backdrop of stunning change in Eastern Europe that has swept hard-line regimes from power. The two men are also expected to discuss arms control, trade relations and conflicts such as Afghanistan and Nicaragua as well...
...Americans begin to build a consensus on the need to cut off military aid to El Salvador--aid that now amounts to $1.4 million dollars per day--Cristiani has desperately tried to deflect attention away from the recent abuses. Last week he broke all diplomatic and commercial ties with Nicaragua, which he claims is supplying arms and training to the guerrillas. He also announced his refusal to attend the next round of Central American peace talks, scheduled to be held in Nicaragua...
...both parties supported huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations, when both parties supported major cutbacks in funding for education, housing, environmental proection and desperately-needed social services, when both parties supported major increases in military spending and the 8-year-old C.I.A.-Contra was against Nicaragua...
...hard to imagine that even before perestroika, the Soviet Union was supplying an amount of cash and equipment to the rebels even remotely close to $1.4 million dollars a day. And the ravaged economies of Cuba and Nicaragua are hardly able to give the rebels any substantial...
...Bush Administration heeded the message -- then bent it to its own purposes, using the occasion to renew old charges against Moscow. Secretary of State James Baker told the Organization of American States that the Soviet Union "bears special responsibility because its arms and its money, moving through Cuba and Nicaragua, continue to support violence, destruction and war." While there was no evidence of direct Soviet complicity, there were indications that Nicaragua is continuing to arm the F.M.L.N...