Word: nicaraguan
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State Department legal advisor Abraham Soafer said the administration thought the Nicaragua proceedings did not belong in the World Court, but rather in a political forum. He said the administration believes that it is exercising its right to engage in "collective self-defense" against Nicaraguan activities which it thinks Cuba and the Soviet Union support...
...similar protest followed on June 12 opposing Congress's approval of $14 million in military aid to the Nicaraguan contras...
...seven days of testimony, during which five witnesses were called, the Nicaraguan legal team, which also includes a Briton, a Frenchman, a Nicaraguan attorney and Managua's Ambassador to the Netherlands, attempted to prove that the contras were a creation of the U.S. and would wither away without Washington's funding. In an affidavit, former Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro claimed that the rebels were practicing terrorism against civilian populations as a conscious policy. He alleged that the political and military activities of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force, which he left last year, "were directed and controlled by the CIA." Chamorro...
...team, comprised of another U.S lawyer, together with the Nicaraguan ambassador to the Netherlands and an attorney each from England, France and Nicaragua presented five witnesses and an affidavit from Edgar Chamorro, a former contra leader...
Chamorro wrote that the CIA directed the rebel leaders' quest for Congressional funding, wrote their speeches and policy, and forced them to join with members of the former Nicaraguan dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. The witnesses testified about reported contra atrocities and gave estimates of the damage to and legitimacy of the Nicaraguan government...