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...world breathed a sigh of relief when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and President-Elect Violeta Chamorro embraced last Monday. Nicaragua's freest and fairest election ever seemed to go off smoothly, indicating that world leaders may soon be free of any entanglement with the country's civil war. President Bush even congratulated Ortega last week on "the conduct of the election and on his pledge to stand by the results...
Sure, said Ronald Reagan, he believed in the Nicaraguan contras and wanted them to prosper. But he never instructed his aides to violate a congressional prohibition on giving them Government aid. He never knew that the profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been used to arm the anti-Sandinista guerrillas. His admonition to his staff, he insisted, was always, "We don't break...
...Sandinistas may have lost power, said Daren S. Aronofsky '91, a COCA member, but "This isn't going to slow us down." Aronofsky said COCA plans to continue to educate Harvard on the "real" story of the Central American people, and to fight against U.S. intervention into Nicaraguan affairs...
...significance" to Poindexter's defense in the Iran-contra trial. Greene, who has viewed transcripts of the journals, says they hold no bombshells that will refute the former Commander in Chief's claims that he neither "knew of nor authorized" a diversion of Iranian arms-sale profits to help Nicaraguan contra rebels. However, the judge allowed that at least one entry is "ambiguous...
Despite nagging concerns over the fairness of the upcoming Nicaraguan elections, the vote will be free and democratic, said an official who is observing the campaign...