Word: nicaraguan
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Reagan also issued a fresh call for aid to the contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, and said the Soviet Union had doubled military assistance for the leftist regime in the first two months of this year over 1987 levels...
...journalist met Walter Cronkite, who, he recalls, advised him "to read anything I could get my hands on." He started out in Chicago radio, eventually moving to Washington and television, joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when CNN asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that...
...drug cartel. The slim, Cuban-born accountant told how he laundered as much as $200 million a month through Panamanian and overseas banks. A fervent anti- Communist, he said he siphoned funds -- TIME has learned the amount was in the millions -- into secret accounts set up for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials have denied knowledge of any such transaction...
GUATEMALA CITY--Peace talks between the leftist Nicaraguan government and contra rebels broke down yesterday, with their mediator indirectly blaming the Sandinistas for not accepting a new cease-fire proposal...
...attorney quoted the Nicaraguan president as saying he would be willing to talk to Obando y Bravo about his proposal but did not want his negotiators to discuss it at the contra talks...