Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan's plan for sending $100 million in military aid to Nicaraguan rebels stalled yesterday as several key members of Congress objected to harsh White House rhetoric aimed at opponents, and two more House panels opposed the request...
White House communications director Patrick J. Buchanan argued that the Contra aid vote will reveal whether the Democratic Party "stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance -- or (Nicaraguan President) Daniel Ortega and the communists...
...members of Congress hide their heads in the sand and pretend the Nicaraguan threat will go away, they are courting disaster and history will hold them acountable," he said. "Nothing less than the security of the United States is at stake...
...Whose side are you on?" Reagan's conservative aide wrote. "With the vote on Contra aid, the Democratic Party will reveal whether it stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance--or [Nicaraguan leader] Daniel Ortega and the communists...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 had argued yesterday that the leftist Nicaraguan government was becoming a "second Cuba on the American mainland [meaning] the Warsaw Pact will have effectively outflanked...