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...Ministry. Described as an "internationalist commander" in official Cuban press reports, Del Pino reportedly served as chief of air troops in Angola, where 30,000 Cuban soldiers are helping the Marxist regime battle U.S.-backed rebels. According to U.S. officials, he also helped oversee the Cuban military setup in Nicaragua. Said a Justice Department spokesman: "He's in a position to know pretty much anything we'd want to find out about the Cuban military -- and a lot of other things...
...Boland amendment went through several congressional rewrites (see chart). Originally it forbade any expenditures "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua." Then it placed a $24 million limit on aid to "military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua." The most restrictive version, in effect from October 1984 to December 1985, stated that "no funds available" to the CIA, the Defense Department or any "entity of the U.S. involved in intelligence activities" could be used "directly or indirectly" to support the contras...
...worth and spent some in stores near his home. He bought, among other things, two snow tires for $100. Senator Rudman, using sarcasm to make the point that the money was not spent for any public purpose, asked Calero "when was the last time it snowed in Nicaragua." The contra leader allowed that it does not snow in Nicaragua. It would be a crime for North to accept compensation from a non-Government source...
Contra terrorism, designed and paid for by this country, killed Benjamin Linder, a young engineer living in Nicaragua ((WORLD, May 11)). Linder was working on a much needed rural electrification project. He chose to help rather than exploit his neighbors to the south. That, unfortunately, made him a "Communist" in the eyes of the contras, and they murdered...
...unmade lives: "It was September of 1974, most of us would leave town in a few weeks, and I had been recently pregnant. Some of us were going to Belize to survive an earthquake. Some of us were going to California . . . My lover, the carpenter, was going to Nicaragua on a house-building deal that would never materialize. We'd had passport photos taken together; he would use his passport in the company of someone else and I would lose mine somewhere in Arizona...