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...eight years, the Honduran town of Yamales served as the nerve center for the Nicaraguan contras in their war against the Sandinista government in Managua. So it was appropriate that Yamales was the site last week for a ceremony attended by hundreds of rebels that marked the dismantling of the contra base camps. Abel Ignasio Cespedes, known to his insurgent troops as Comandante Ciro, turned over a battered West German G-3 automatic rifle to a representative of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who will be inaugurated as Nicaragua's President this week. The weapon was then handed to Major General...
...Iran-contra affair. But once he faced trial on five charges of destroying documents and lying to Congress, John Poindexter switched signals and called Ronald Reagan as his star witness to share some responsibility for the Administration's secret policies to sell arms to Iran and assist the Nicaraguan contras. The former President failed to help his loyal National Security Adviser. Confused, forgetful and oblivious to the public record, Reagan would not even concede that Congress had been deceived. A federal jury in Washington last week thus pushed Poindexter over the side again, convicting him on all counts. The scandal...
Within the GOP--whose meaning he wants to change to the "growth and opportunity party"--Kemp's conservative credentials are impeccable. Besides opposing high taxes. Kemp supported the Nicaraguan Contras and has stuck to his anti-abortion ideals. No wonder liberals were confused when he received three standing ovations at last summer's NAACP conference in Washington...
...drugs. Lincoln made a loan to Covenant House, and I waived one of the interest payments on the building which housed these poor kids, and the next thing I know I'm accused of funneling that money through the Knights of Malta, a high- placed Catholic society, to the Nicaraguan rebels to buy arms. This comes out of the Congress. You print everything that the Fed feeds you. The person they're talking about doesn't exist...
...talking in the filtered sunlight of the Oval Office about the three times he has reached out and touched Mikhail Gorbachev. The first time was just after Bush took over the presidency. The second call came in January, when German unification was hot, the third in February, after the Nicaraguan elections...