Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A Senate committee investigating the Iran Contra affair could vote within three weeks on immunity for former White House aide John Poindexter, who--according to a published report--maintains he twice told the president that Iranian arms sales generated money for the Nicaraguan rebels...
...just from the backlash of a misconceived and bungled policy of trading arms for hostages, though that backlash could damage all U.S. foreign relations. Not just from suspicions of illegality in aiding the Nicaraguan contras, though those suspicions threaten to undermine one of the President's most cherished goals. Not even just from further revelations of incompetence, cover-up or worse that may come out of probes by congressional committees and Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh building on the Tower findings, painful and protracted as that process will...
...April of last year, North prepared a memo seeking presidential approval for McFarlane's trip to Tehran and stating that $12 million in "residual" funds from the transaction would "be used to purchase critically needed supplies for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance Forces." But the board could find no evidence that North had even sent the memo to Poindexter. By May, North had told McFarlane that "the government is availing itself of part of the money for application to Central America." North told Assistant ^ Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage in November that "it's going to be just fine . . . the Ayatollah...
...contras, and writing up talking points for negotiations with shady arms merchants. Whenever the Administration's enthusiasm seemed to be flagging on either the Iran or contra front, North whirled into action, proposing new policies for extricating the hostages and novel ways to raise more millions for the Nicaraguan rebels, sometimes employing the most outrageous of lies and schemes to keep the action going...
...expressions of their opposition to the Club's guests. Two years ago, divestment activists formed a mob outside Lowell House in a misguided attempt to prevent a South African ambassador, who had just addressed the Club, from leaving the campus. And in the past year, overzealous protestors pelted a Nicaraguan contra with eggs and fake blood...