Word: nicaraguan
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Linder's body yesterday was in Matagalpa, a Nicaraguan provincial capital, where a ceremony was held in his honor...
...account contradicted Nicaraguan statements that 27-year-old Benjamin Ernest Linder, of Portland, Ore., was singled out by the Contras and slain...
...Nicaraguan Democratic Force, or FDN, said that it held the leftist government of Nicaragua responsible for the death of the first American to die in Nicaragua's civil war. Nicaragua said the U.S. government was to blame for supporting the Contras...
...first U.S.-backed contra attacks in 1982--gains that include decreasing infant mortality from 120 deaths per 1000 to 80 deaths per 1000; eliminating polio for the first time in Central American history; decreasing the illiteracy rate from 75 percent to 30 percent; and giving the Nicaraguan peoiple pride in themselves, their work, and their country--he might realize that letting the Sandinistas "do what they will" is not such an "unpleasant alternative" afterall. Jonathan Foster '87 Health and Human Rights Group Harvard School of Public Health
...enough to address without having someone throw partisan politlcal baggage into the equation. Calling someone a "racist" because he has a different position on affirmative action (or South African divestment) is as unproductive and as intellectually stifling as calling him a "communist" because he doesn't support aid to Nicaraguan contras...