Word: nicaraguan
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...BEGINNING of the end for the Nicaraguan contras is in sight. On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution, by a vote of 11-9, to prevent President Reagan from releasing the final $40 million of the $100 million contra aid package passed last year. Now it's time to capitalize on this victory and force a broad reversal of United States' Central American policy...
...diplomacy devised in the White House basement in order to evade the will of Congress. The forthcoming Tower Commission Report threatens to expose him as a blatant liar What's more the contras themselves are engage in a damaging power struggle which threatens to rip asunder the United Nicaraguan Opposition, as well as the President's policy...
...inside the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater announced that Reagan stands ready to veto any legislation halting aid to the Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government...
...half month silence while Robert Gates was undergoing a second, tough day of questioning at his Senate confirmation hearing to take over as CIA director. Elsewhere in Congress, the Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted narrowly to cut off further aid to the Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government...
Driving to the sleepy Honduran market town of Las Trojes, the visitor travels along a dirt track that hugs the Nicaraguan border. The boundary is no more than a hundred yards away in most places, marked by three strands of barbed wire clinging to rotting posts hidden in chest-high grass. At a point where the road elbows its way out of forested hills and runs through open country, a Honduran soldier on patrol warns, "The Sandinistas will shoot at anybody." No wonder. Thousands of U.S.-backed contras have infiltrated that barbed-wire border to set up a base camp...