Word: nicaraguan
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Froelich arrived in the Nicaraguan capital Monday to arrange local counsel for the prisoner, who is a brother of Rep. Tony Hall (D-Ohio...
...politics, not surprisingly, are fervently anti-Communist: between his retirement from the Marines in 1984 and his move to Hollywood a year later, he edited Soldier of Fortune magazine and unofficially trained Nicaraguan contras. Good-humored political arguments raged between Dye and Stone, who called each other "John Wayne" and "the Bolshevik." Dye is not concerned that many, including Stone, see Platoon as an antiwar film: "My hope is that it will encourage America not to waste its soldiers' lives in wars that it is not willing or able to win." That theme is further explored...
...served in the early 1970s as United Nations Ambassador and envoy to China; a subsequent stint as director of the CIA acutely altered his views of the Kremlin's objectives around the world. Bush the moderate became more hawkish. Now he speaks out sharply in behalf of the Nicaraguan contras and is not reluctant to employ weapons and money elsewhere to expand democracy. Meanwhile he pushes, even in the worst of times, for continued dialogue with Moscow. In doing so, he plays an important role in keeping the President's more aggressive tendencies in check...
...suspicion, of course, is that some of the money went to the contras. A Senate Intelligence Committee report that leaked last week charges that it was Ghorbanifar who first suggested to a CIA contact in March 1986 that money paid by Iran be funneled to the Nicaraguan rebels. Ghorbanifar furiously denies that he had anything to do with money for the contras -- and in fact it is hard to see how he could have gained anything from the diversion. The Senate committee report, he charges, reflects "lying under oath" by "some U.S. officials in trouble (who) were trying to deflect...
...moderate factions in the Iranian government was no more than a rationale concocted by CIA Director William Casey. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North was instrumental in persuading the President to proceed; North's boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, was aware that Iran arms profits were being diverted to Nicaraguan contras. Casey, too, knew of the diversion weeks before he has claimed he was told. Yet Ronald Reagan seemed "surprised" to learn last November of the contra connection...