Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speakers, all Law School graduates, include Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Mary.), who sits on the Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, Representative Anthony Beilenson (D-Cal.), Representative Sander Levin (D-Mich.), and Paul Kirk, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
WASHINGTON--The Tower commission will report that the United States sold arms to Iran to win the release of American hostages, despite contrary statements by President Reagan, but the panel could not determine how profits from the deal were diverted to Nicaraguan rebels, a source said yesterday...
...arms sales were siphoned for the Nicaraguan...
...rebel leadership is no longer successful even at sticking together. Two of the contra directors, Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo, have threatened to quit the U.S.-sponsored United Nicaraguan Opposition because of their differences with Adolfo Calero, head of the largest and best-armed contra organization, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. Cruz and Robelo say Calero has ignored them and undercut their attempts to democratize the movement. Cruz recently told TIME that the UNO chiefs were not "spokesmen for the people" but rather a "cluster of bickering leaders." In Costa Rica, Robelo reportedly told U.S. officials that he would resign unless...
...rebels in the absence of a better strategy for containing the Sandinistas. Speaking at a meeting of the American Bar Association in New Orleans, Secretary of State George Shultz last week reiterated the Administration view that the Sandinista regime is a "Soviet ( stronghold on the mainland." By supporting the Nicaraguan insurrection, said Shultz, "we may avoid direct military involvement by the U.S. in the future." Such dire warnings are intended to present the American people with a stark choice: pay for the contras now or pay for a war later...