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...Cockfighting is to Nicaragua what NASCAR is to the United States: to the outsider it might look like a bunch of guys sitting around circular grandstands drinking beers and calling it sport, but a closer look reveals a unique cultural insight that few other events offer. "Cockfighting is a gentleman's sport that was first brought here by the Spanish," says Mario Tapia, publisher of the national bimonthly cockfighting magazine Gente de Gallos. "It's an event that draws all sectors of society together, everyone from doctors to politicians to the rural poor...
...underlying a sometimes unwieldy body of work that includes his expressionistic paintings of steelworkers and, most recently, Saddam Hussein, has been his eloquent draftsmanship. From early sketches of train commuters in Kogarah to his first diary accounts of soldiers while making a film in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution, Gittoes has been interested in rendering the forces of industry and war. "I understand soldiers," he says. And his understanding has come about as much through pen, pencil and brush, as his new show of drawings at Sydney's Australian Galleries makes startlingly clear. Of his four trips to Baghdad...
...scheme, including Khashoggi, Saudi officials and the CIA, deny this was done. Any CIA effort to enlist the Saudis in support of the contras would have violated the Boland Amendment, originally passed by Congress in 1982 to stop the use of any U.S. funds to overthrow the government of Nicaragua, and tightened in 1984 to prevent the Administration from using any other country to provide military help to the contras. Many close observers of Saudi affairs doubt the royal family would take the risk of a potential public exposure of dealing with either Iran or the contras...
...downed C-123K had been used in 1984 by the CIA and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration in a sting operation designed to show that the Sandinistas were dealing in cocaine. The CIA's hand is evident in other secret air operations related to the Nicaragua conflict. Southern Air Transport is a Miami firm that was wholly controlled by the CIA until 1972. The State Department confirmed that it had used Southern Air to fly part of the legal $27 million in nonmilitary supplies from the U.S. to the contras. The department said it had no responsibility for the fact...
Adolfo Calero, one of the three leaders of the United Nicaragua Opposition, said last week in Miami that his organization became so broke during the congressional cutoff that it is now $2 million in debt. Calero claimed that the contras rarely received any cash from the U.S. Government. The nonlethal aid arrived, he said, in the form of "goods and services," and the contras were asked to keep records on the deliveries...