Word: nicaragua
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...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said yesterday that an aide who defected to the United States was a "little worm" who took with him several documents of questionable strategic value...
...Defense Ministry had reported Friday that Miranda took $15,000 in government money when he left Nicaragua while the government was auditing the ministry's finances...
Instead, Ortega said Miranda was "reached by and fell in love with the CIA" in the United States when he accompanied Nicaragua's first lady, Rosario Murillo, to California on September 5 to visit a demonstrator injured while protesting U.S. aid to the anti-Sandinista rebels, called Contras...
...Philadelphia's MOVE household, the surge of executions on Jim Crow death row, the gutting of busing for desegregation--these are emblems of a visciously racist ruling class gearing up for war. As American capitalism continues to rot, both Republicans and Democrats know they cannot conduct any war--against Nicaragua, Cuba and ultimately the Soviet Union--without the subjugation of the working classes and all the oppressed...
...left him, with 15 months remaining in his term, not just a lame duck but a crippled one. One after another, his major goals for this fall have gone aglimmering: the appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the hope to win renewed funding for the contras in Nicaragua, and his aim of pushing through a budget plan that would protect defense spending without raising existing taxes or imposing new ones. The stock-market plunge only magnified his new aura of ineffectiveness. Through it all, he and his aides were hoping for a grandly choreographed summit with Gorbachev...