Word: nicaraguan
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...MOINES, Iowa--Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis lectured Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 to "get your facts straight," but six Democratic presidential hopefuls generally were in harmony yesterday in supporting sweeping arms control agreements and an end to military aid to Nicaraguan rebels...
...Democratic candidates pushed for deepcuts in funding for Nicaraguan rebels. Only Gorewas willing to back any funding for the Contrarebels, and would limit that to humanitarianassistance...
WASHINGTON--Former CIA Director William Casey, on his sickbed, told investigative reporter Bob Woodward of The Washington Post he knew all along about diversion of money to the Nicaraguan Contras, according to galleys of Woodward's forthcoming book obtained by U.S. News & World Report...
...much like the Reagan- Wright peace plan, their proposal seems designed to force a refusal from the Sandinistas. "The big attraction of the Guatemala plan for the Sandinistas was that it left the contras high and dry," says a Western diplomat in Honduras. The contras hope that a Nicaraguan refusal will persuade the Honduran government to take a tougher stand on the accord...
...hostilities in Nicaragua might send a tidal wave of contra refugees crashing across the border. Costa Rican officials believe that in the event of peace, the peasant soldiers in their country would return to Nicaragua, with only the former National Guardsmen of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and upper-class Nicaraguans choosing to remain abroad. Honduran officials are less sanguine. As it is, they must cope with some 150,000 Nicaraguan refugees. They fear that most of the roughly 12,000 contras would want to set up shop in Honduras, perhaps even refusing to be disarmed...