Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facing Duberstein may be finding something exciting to do. Reagan's agenda for his final months in office is hardly the stuff to send an overachiever's blood racing: preparing for the economic summit in Toronto this week, leading a virtually hopeless drive to win more funds for the Nicaraguan contras, working to revise the trade bill, pushing for stringent work requirements in the new welfare-reform legislation, campaigning for Bush. While Duberstein tries to generate enthusiasm in his staff, some observers expect a rash of White House resignations this summer. "I wouldn't want to be here till...
Meanwhile, charges will likely be dropped against those who sold arms to Iran for hostages and diverted the profits to Nicaraguan contras in defiance of the law. If any of the prosecution's case relies on testimony made before T V, the court has hinted it would drop the entire case. The very fact that we heard the means by which the Constitution was subverted will now ensure that those who subverted it will not be punished...
North, Poindexter, and two businessmen--Richard Secord and Albert Hakim--are charged in a 23-count indictment with conspiring to illegally divert profits from sale of arms to Iran to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Other counts involve obstruction of presidential and congressional investigations of the Iran-Contra affair, and theft of U.S. government property...
...plan was Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega. An earlier meeting in February had included all the nations except Nicaragua, but everyone knew--none better than Arias--that unless Ortega signed on, the accord would have no substance...
...result of the plan, the Contra rebels and the Sandinistas government agreed to cease fire early this year, and they are engaged in negotiations. Additionally, the Nicaraguan government has allowed the previously shut down newspaper La Prensa to begin publishing again...