Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A bitterly divided House voted Wednesday to cut off U.S. military support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, rejecting President Reagan's aid request in the hope of fortifying the Central American peace process...
...Nicaragua's ambassador told Managua's Radio Sandino that the vote was "nothing more than recognition of the sentiments of the majority of the North American people...
...issue of Nicaragua and Central America will not go away," said House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois...
...presidents of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, ElSalvador, Honduras and Guatemala launched a peaceeffort when they signed an accord last August 7.Those talks are scheduled to resume February...
...Obviously, if the government of Nicaragua wereto misbehave in extreme ways, to renege outrighton its commitments or to invade its neighbors,that would radically change the situation," Wrightsaid. "We don't anticipate that...