Word: nicaraguan
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...said Reagan's approach to the Iran crisis was "basically, let's get all the facts out as rapidly as possible." Shultz said he did not believe the refusal of Poindexter and North to testify would hinder congressional investigations of the Iran arms deal and diversion of profits to Nicaraguan insurgents...
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, last night called on that investigative body to grant immunity to two government officials charged with illegally transfering funds from the arms sales to Iran to Nicaraguan "contras...
Buchanan, in speech Monday night in Miami, told 3000 cheering Nicaraguan and Cuban-American Reagan supporters that the press and Congress were trying to "cripple" Reagan with the Iran arms controversy...
...estimated 3000 predominantly Republican Cuban-American and Nicaraguan exiles attended the rally sponsored by Concerned Citizens for Democracy...
...punishment to North and those in the Administration who failed to monitor his activities. Says Minnesota Senator David Durenberger, a Republican and reluctant contra supporter: "It's going to be a cold day in Washington before any more money goes to Nicaragua. Ollie may have killed off his Nicaraguan program." Such a reaction has little logic. There are valid arguments for and against helping the anti-Sandinista guerrillas, but the issue should be debated on its merits rather than being made a kind of extralegal, and ineffective, penalty against...