Word: nicaraguan
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...provide funds that would help poor people pay their fuel bills. The backfiring tactic was devised by top White House Aides James Baker and Richard Darman. Even some Republicans on the Republican-controlled committee were outraged by the stratagem, which would have forced Senators opposed to funding the Nicaraguan contras to vote against aid to low-income Americans. The committee rejected Stevens' amendment, 15 to 14. The Appropriations Committee also delayed voting on a similar effort to attach funds for El Salvador to a bill providing emergency food aid for drought-stricken African nations. Declared Republican Senator Pete Domenici...
...calling for a worldwide freeze on the manufacture of plutonium that could be used by terrorists to build nuclear weapons. Hart, in 1982, opposed the construction of two large aircraft carriers, arguing instead for more usable and less vulnerable smaller craft. In foreign policy, Hart opposed U.S. backing of Nicaraguan contras, called for the removal of U.S. marines from Lebanon before more than 250 were killed by a truck bomb. He has opposed the spread of technology that is suitable for weapons use, and has proposed negotiations on way to reduce the possibilities of an accidental nuclear...
...Harvard Divinity School staff member will leave for the Nicaraguan-Honduran border next month as part of a mission hoping to pring peace to the troubled region...
Dorman said yesterday the group will try "to interfere if we can with the attacks by CIA contras on the bonder to bring a message to the Nicaraguan people in several that there are many people who believe they have a right to their own government...
DIED. Julio Cortázar, 69, avant-garde Argentine writer (best-known novel: Hopscotch) and political activist, who supported the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions; of a heart attack; in Paris. Cortázar's subtle humor and sinister sense of fantasy, combined with the themes of identity and reincarnation, moved a fellow novelist to hail him as "one of the greatest creators of Latin American literature...