Word: nicaraguan
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...clampdown in Managua pushed already strained U.S.-Nicaraguan relations close to the breaking point. Declaring, "We are going to return the favor," President Reagan ordered the expulsion of Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Tunnermann and seven of his fellow diplomats. But the most potentially far- reaching U.S. response was a renewed drive for military aid for the contras. Though the issue was virtually dead before last week, Reagan pledged his support for a $47 million assistance package, introduced Wednesday by Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole, that includes $20 million for weapons and ammunition...
...small city of Sweetwater, near Miami, for example, people of all stripes come from miles around to dine at Los Ranchos. Opened in 1981 by Julio Somoza, nephew of the former Nicaraguan President, the elegant establishment is a beef house in the best Latin tradition. The house specialty: churrasco, a center cut of tenderloin marinated in chimichurri -- fresh chopped parsley, olive oil, garlic and spices. On a Saturday night at Versailles, the undisputed palace of Cuban cooking in the heart of Little Havana, Anglo couples slurp mamey milk shakes made from a sweet tropical fruit, while Cuban workmen just...
...dismissed suit, which has been followed feverishly by activists on the left and right, was filed on behalf of Journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, who claimed that the 1984 bombing of a press conference held by Nicaraguan Rebel Leader Eden Pastora Gomez was the work of 29 conspirators, including retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub and former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Theodore Shackley. Sheehan, who will appeal the dismissal, claims it is a "conscious action to stop this case from going to trial before the election...
...knew it was coming," said Jorge Rosales, a press officer at the Nicaraguan Resistance headquarters in Miami last week. Word had just leaked that the contras plan to lay off many, if not all, of their civilian employees. "Everybody knows there has been a negative vote in Congress," said Rosales, referring to the bleak prospects for more U.S. aid to back the contra war effort against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua...
...facing Duberstein may be finding something exciting to do. Reagan's agenda for his final months in office is hardly the stuff to send an overachiever's blood racing: preparing for the economic summit in Toronto this week, leading a virtually hopeless drive to win more funds for the Nicaraguan contras, working to revise the trade bill, pushing for stringent work requirements in the new welfare-reform legislation, campaigning for Bush. While Duberstein tries to generate enthusiasm in his staff, some observers expect a rash of White House resignations this summer. "I wouldn't want to be here till...