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Sunrise was more than an hour off, and most of Managua was still asleep when the bombs exploded. "The earth moved," recalled Sergio Cano, a laborer. "We thought the gringos had started bombing." The blast in the Nicaraguan capital signaled neither an earthquake nor an armed invasion from the north but an unusually bold contra attack on an electrical tower. While residents slumbered in the dusty neighborhood of Domitila Lugo, rebels had scaled the high-voltage pylon and placed explosives on the metal crossbars. The explosion shattered windows and broke dishes in nearby homes, but no one was hurt. Indeed...
Still, it was the first time in more than four years that the contras had struck at a target within the city limits. Muffed though it was, the attack delivered a warning that complemented the stepped-up rebel activity in the Nicaraguan countryside: the contras' urban offensive seemed to have begun. Sandinista officials promptly blamed the Reagan Administration. Trumpeted a banner headline in the daily party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed...
...inside Nicaragua, including maps and blueprints of bridges, dams and other facilities built by U.S. agencies in the 1960s and 1970s. Legislators may find such involvement perilously close to the kind of CIA activities that led to a cutoff of congressional funds in 1984, after U.S. agents mined a Nicaraguan harbor...
...contras. Yes, he had met with some of the donors in the White House and thanked them for their efforts, said Reagan, but he had no idea they had been buying guns. What, then? "Spot ads on television" advocating resumption of open, fully legal aid by Congress to the Nicaraguan rebels, he said...
Last spring, speeches by two Nicaraguan Contras were halted when members of the audience hurled eggs and a jar of fake blood at the two speakers invited by the Conservative and Republican Clubs. The demonstrators were not Harvard students...