Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They converged in the bleak scrublands of southeastern Angola. Rebel Leader Jonas Savimbi played host to the others: spokesmen for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the Afghan mujahedin and the hill tribes opposing the Communist regime in Laos. For two days they talked and socialized in Jamba, stronghold of Savimbi's well-armed and organized movement against Angola's Marxist government, and stood shoulder to shoulder with the American who had brought them together: Lewis Lehrman, millionaire Republican leader of a lobby called Citizens for America. The group announced the formation of an alliance, Democratic International, to support "the fight...
Ronald Reagan showed last week that beneath his affable facade beats the heart of an exasperated politician. At a meeting at the White House, the President once more called upon a group of Republican legislators to support his Administration's request for aid to the Nicaraguan rebels, known as the contras. Even as he spoke, Reagan knew that despite his pleas, Congress would not pass a military-aid bill for the rebels. The President reportedly pounded his fist on the table.* "We have got to get where we can run a foreign policy without a committee of 535 telling...
...legislative obstacles were only the start of Reagan's Central American headaches last week. In Honduras, army efforts to move the contras out of camps near the Nicaraguan border threatened to impede the rebels' efforts to weaken Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Nicaragua, Sandinista officials irritated Washington both by seeking to set up their own talks with Honduras and by announcing an oil deal with the Soviet Union. In Costa Rica, the Reagan Administration came under increasing criticism for sending Green Berets to a base...
...have been soliciting money and supplies for the rebels' fight against the Sandinista regime. The main figure in that effort is Singlaub, 63, who was dismissed as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after a dispute with President Carter. Adolfo Calero, commander of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), the largest contra group, claims that Singlaub's network of U.S. and foreign supporters has raised the lion's share of cash and supplies valued at "close to $10 million." Substantial assistance, says Calero, is coming from "at least a dozen or more foreign countries...
Singlaub stays in touch with other U.S. groups involved in aiding those opposing and fleeing from the Sandinistas. They include the Christian Broadcasting Network, which provides humanitarian aid to Nicaraguan refugees in Honduras. Singlaub also gave advice and assistance to the fund-raising campaign launched by the Washington Times, which is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. That effort is headed by William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury in the Ford Administration...