Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Danish shipping firm of Finn J. Poulsen, which has an indirect connection with Iranscam. Last April the company sold a 163-ft. ship to shadowy private partners of Oliver North, who paid with funds from North's Geneva bank account. That ship was used to deliver arms to the Nicaraguan contras...
...single issue in the Iranscam mess could still cause irreparable harm to the Reagan presidency, it is the purportedly illegal diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the Nicaraguan contra rebels. Ronald Reagan has denied any knowledge of the labyrinthine transfer, via Swiss bank accounts, of at least $23 million to the contras. The President repeated his denial during last week's televised speech, and the Tower commission discovered nothing that directly contradicted his assertion...
...April of 1986, an INCAR member, also notaffiliated with Harvard, threw eggs and imitationblood at Nicaraguan Contra Jorge Rosales at aspeech sponsored by the Harvard Conservative Club.Officials cancelled the speech, but Rosalesreturned to speak before a Harvard-only audience...
Adolfo Calero, one of the directors of the Nicaraguan Resistance, said in an interview yesterday before his scheduled speech at the Law School that the contras will not honor the cease-fire the Nicaraguan government set for November 7, unless further conditions...
Calero, former commander-in-chief of the Nicaraguan Democratic Forces (FDN), said in yesterday's interview that if the Sandinistas have not negotiated sufficiently with the contras by November 7, "fighting will continue, unfortunately...