Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOINES, Iowa--Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis lectured Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 to "get your facts straight," but six Democratic presidential hopefuls generally were in harmony yesterday in supporting sweeping arms control agreements and an end to military aid to Nicaraguan rebels...
...Democratic candidates pushed for deepcuts in funding for Nicaraguan rebels. Only Gorewas willing to back any funding for the Contrarebels, and would limit that to humanitarianassistance...
Meanwhile the peace cavalcade proceeded in fits and starts. Contra leaders gathered in Guatemala City to examine their own future. In an unexpected gesture of goodwill, they released 80 Sandinista prisoners of war at an airfield in Costa Rica, 30 miles from the Nicaraguan border. Several days earlier, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra pardoned 16 Central Americans, none of them Nicaraguans, who had been imprisoned for rebel activity...
WASHINGTON--Former CIA Director William Casey, on his sickbed, told investigative reporter Bob Woodward of The Washington Post he knew all along about diversion of money to the Nicaraguan Contras, according to galleys of Woodward's forthcoming book obtained by U.S. News & World Report...
...hostilities in Nicaragua might send a tidal wave of contra refugees crashing across the border. Costa Rican officials believe that in the event of peace, the peasant soldiers in their country would return to Nicaragua, with only the former National Guardsmen of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and upper-class Nicaraguans choosing to remain abroad. Honduran officials are less sanguine. As it is, they must cope with some 150,000 Nicaraguan refugees. They fear that most of the roughly 12,000 contras would want to set up shop in Honduras, perhaps even refusing to be disarmed...