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WASHINGTON--State Department officials, citing White House concern, bypassed normal procedures in 1985 to bail out a financially strapped company that was aiding the Nicaraguan Contras, a department memo shows...
Support for the House bill was spurred by the resignation of Arturo Cruz from the triumvirate that heads the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the contras' political arm. Cruz, a onetime Sandinista who has been a consistent advocate of democratic reforms within the rebel movement, never had much power, but his presence was a symbol that the contras were more than just a collection of embittered former supporters of deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Cruz's absence creates greater doubts about the caliber of the contra leadership. Elliott Abrams, the State Department's point man on the contra issue, disagrees. "The reform...
...case before the court involved Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca, 38, a Nicaraguan who now lives in Nevada. Cardoza-Fonseca unsuccessfully claimed before theINS that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between...
...been clear that two men are crucial to unraveling the tangled scheme: former National Security Adviser Admiral John Poindexter and his deputy, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But the two have stubbornly refused to discuss their roles in the weapons sales to Iran and the secret funding of the Nicaraguan contras, invoking their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Last week the arrangements for forcing the silent partners to talk led to a clash between the Senate Select Committee and Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...
Poindexter ran the National Security Council during much of the period when the U.S. was selling arms to Iran and a private network was supplying the Nicaraguan Contras during a congressional ban on military aid to the rebels. Poindexter resigned and North, his aide, was fired for their roles in those operations...