Word: nicaraguan
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...most serious charges because national security would not permit North to use certain evidence deemed essential for his defense. North was originally charged with stealing $14 million in profits from United States arms sales to Iran and conspiring to subvert government processes by funneling the money to the Nicaraguan contras...
...more sprinkles fell on Baker's parade when five Central American Presidents agreed to a plan that would disband the anti-Sandinista contras now holed up in Honduras in exchange for new guarantees of democracy by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Though Baker had met with the Foreign Ministers of Honduras and Costa Rica only a week before, the State Department was caught flat-footed. Spokesman Charles Redman could only declare, "We weren't at the meeting. We'd like to find out more about...
...other members of his Administration -- among them Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, CIA Director William Casey and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General John Vessey -- "personally and directly" took part in arranging deals to have other countries aid the Nicaraguan contras at a time when help from the U.S. was forbidden by law; they then allegedly ordered the arrangements kept secret. Sullivan hopes to show with this classified material that North was just following orders when he lied to Congress about his contra activities...
WASHINGTON Oliver I North "placed himself above the law" by lying to Congress and shredding documents to conceal his support of the Nicaraguan rebels, a prosecutor told jurors today at the opening of the former presidential aide's Iran-Contra trial...
...year after it passed the 1984 Boland Amendment banning U.S. military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras, Congress received news reports that North, then a Marine lieutenant colonel, was secretly raising money for the rebels from foreign countries and private donors and providing tactical military advice...