Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the committee's depiction of a fractious White House staff, the Administration welcomed the release of the document because the Senators found no "direct evidence" that the President knew of the illegal diversion of funds from the Iran arms sales to the Nicaraguan rebels. From the start of the controversy, Reagan's protectors have been seemingly obsessed with establishing the President's lack of culpability in the contra connection...
...referendum listed as reasons for impeaching the president: his refusing to comply with World Court decisions on Central America, his approving a disinformation program on Libya, and his allegedly sending secret arms shipments to Iran, transferring the profits to Nicaraguan rebels...
Hamilton said his committee also "would like to hear from the leaders of the Contras [Nicaraguan rebel forces]" about assertions that profits from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran were diverted to the rebel forces...
Eleven students, alumni and faculty members of the School of Public Health last month left for a two-week survey of Health conditions in Nicaraguan households...
...group is trying to gather data on the impact of war on civilian populations in four Nicaraguan villages. The group members are hoping to go "door-to-door" and interview mothers with at least one child under six years old about health and sanitation conditions in the low intensity war zones of Nicaragua, according to Terri L. Goldberg, an SPH student and spokesman for the group...