Word: nicaraguan
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...film professors at Harvard University. Their goal was to expose the besmirched truths of the nation in a way easily assimilable by American audiences. Together they hit upon the inspired decision to film a middle-class family, the Barrios, carrying out their daily tasks in the service of the Nicaraguan government...
...Conservative Club are. In the past few years the Conservative Club has offered a notable counterpoint to prevailing liberal opinion on the Harvard campus. We have hosted speakers including Senator Eugene McCarthy, now Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, Nestor Sanchez from the Dept. of Defense, leaders of the Nicaraguan contras, Professors Richard Pipes, Harvey Mansfield, and many others. The views of these and other speakers receive wide currency outside Harvard, if not necessarily on campus, and we have found that many students are interested in hearing these viewpoints even if they do not always agree with them...
Barbara Foley, an assistant professor at the Evanston, Ill., school will be disciplined by an administrative committee for leading a protest against a Nicaraguan contra leader at the university last April...
Foley allegedly led students in chants such as "Nicaragua Si! Contras No!" and "Death to the Fascists" when Adolfo Calero, leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Forces, attempted to address a group of students at Harris Hall, a university auditorium...
That aggression seems to be taking a new form, at least in the Sandinistas' view. An earlier suspension of civil rights in 1982 was blamed largely on attacks by U.S.-backed contra rebels. But many outside observers now agree with the Nicaraguan military's assertion that contra activities are being contained for the moment. This time the decree was aimed at another, possibly more dangerous, threat: the Catholic Church and legitimate political parties, professional associations and independent unions that oppose the Sandinistas from within the country. The government fears that all these domestic opponents might band together with the contras...