Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chayes was sharply critical of the U.S. decision to ignore the World Court trial. "They accuse Nicaragua of propaganda [in filing the case], but while we were arguing legality in a court of law, they released a 150-page brief [to the press, defending U.S. claims of Nicaraguan support for the El Salvador rebels]. It was the U.S. that was trying its case in the newspapers...
...team, comprised of another U.S lawyer, together with the Nicaraguan ambassador to the Netherlands and an attorney each from England, France and Nicaragua presented five witnesses and an affidavit from Edgar Chamorro, a former contra leader...
Assaults into Nicaragua by anti-Sandinista guerrillas have in the past provoked occasional Nicaraguan shelling of border towns in neighboring Honduras, where the U.S.-backed contras of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force maintain their base camps. The most recent raid, late last week, drew an unusually heavy Nicaraguan mortar barrage near the town of Arenales; one Honduran soldier was killed and eight others were wounded. In response, the Honduran air force dispatched, for the first time, some of its U.S.-made F-86 jet fighters to attack Nicaraguan positions. The Hondurans said the aircraft fired on Sandinista troop concentrations and shot...
...Roberto Suazo Cordova, after hearing of the attack, recalled his ambassador from Managua and put the armed forces on general alert along the 500-mile border with Nicaragua. Having conferred with U.S. Ambassador John Ferch, Suazo Cordova said the army would "use all necessary measures to repel the aggression." Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra called the Honduran attack an "invasion" and blamed...
Until November, Edgar Chamorro was principal spokesman for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest of the contra groups fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government. Chamorro, who carried out his mission from exile in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Key Biscayne, Fla., revealed that he had been picked for his job by the CIA. The agency, he disclosed, had printed training manuals instructing the guerrillas in such activities as assassination, kidnaping and blackmail. For that revelation he was ejected from the contras. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to expel Chamorro from the country. Two weeks ago, the New York Times...