Word: nicaraguan
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...Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey...
...offered the justification for using force against nations harboring terrorists in what has become known as the "Shultz Doctrine." He supported the Administration's widely criticized decision to withdraw partly from the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice after the court ruled against U.S. support for the Nicaraguan contras. "The U.S. is supposed to be building up international law, not destroying it," says Mark Feldman, a Washington attorney and former staffer in the legal adviser's office...
...Hondurans, however, wanted more. Early last year Honduran military men secretly bought millions of dollars' worth of weapons. The plan was to sell them -- at wildly inflated prices -- to the CIA for delivery to the contras after the U.S. resumed open, legal military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Buy, said the Hondurans, or we will not let supplies of any kind reach the contras. At that point, the supply operation was shifted to Ilopango. There it remained until a mini-coup in the Honduran armed forces last November threw out officials who were accused of fiscal misbehavior...
...have published verse, while Vice President Sergio Ramirez produces fiction -- has also become a government of censors. Nor does he flinch from recording the naivete of teenage soldiers eager for battle. Yet such imperfections are not enough to prevent him from rooting for what he regards as a brave Nicaraguan David up against the North American Goliath. "Were these dictators in the making?" he asks of his ostentatious hosts. "No. Emphatically, no. They struck me as men of integrity and great pragmatism...
...Retired Army Major General John Singlaub, a fund raiser for the contras, threw some light on the origin of the idea of diverting Iranian arms-sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. In an interview with the Washington Post, Singlaub said he had suggested to two countries -- identified by the paper as Taiwan and South Korea -- that they pay a markup for weapons they were buying (such as torpedoes that Taiwan was purchasing from Israel) so that the extra funds could be diverted to Singlaub's contra-supply network. Further, said Singlaub, he had told North about this scheme in early...