Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, four key participants in the Iran-contra affair, including Lt. Colonel Oliver North and former National Security Advisor John Poindexter, were indicted for their role in the secret maneuverings that led to selling arms to the Ayatollah and funneling funds to the rebels in Nicaragua. The indictments, one hopes, will do what the dramatic hearings on the affair failed to do: make it clear that crimes were committed and that the Constitution was bypassed...
...NICARAGUA has put on its Halloween costume and is going trick-or-treating at every American door...
...ready to fight these forces of the 82nd Division because the Superman was defeated in Vietnam and will again go out of Nicaragua defeated if it lands here with its bombers, helicopters or whatever it brings," Ortega said two days...
...didn't have to wait for Ted Kennedy or Alan Cranston or any other liberal lawmaker to damn Reagan's actions by mentioning our only ill-fated war. Nicaragua was the first to bring up Vietnam...
...been working for seven years and we've found that this is probably the biggest escalation and the biggest threat to the sovereignty of Nicaragua that we've seen in seven years," Sweatland said...