Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giving ground on the issue a month ago. When it was clear he could not get approval for unfettered military aid to the 15,000 contra guerrillas, the President offered to tie his aid package to a new peace proposal. If the Sandinistas would agree to open negotiations with rebel leaders, Reagan said, he would order the funds to be used for nonlethal supplies for at least 60 days. By the time the Senate voted, the President had further agreed to restrict the funds to noncombatants and to involve the U.S. directly in new negotiations. The Senate approved that measure...
...with melodrama dominating. Danny's life much the way respectability comes to define. Andrew's George the made Hungarian, "applies his passion for power and government to his studies which--almost inevitably, it seems--wind up under the auspices of Henry Kissinger 50 People take drugs, marriages crumble children rebel, in these lives must the way they do in non Harvard ones it's just that here they all have class years after their names...
...large population of Cuban and Nicaraguan exiles, has been the scene of the most vigorous anti-Sandinista demonstrations. Contra leaders were honored in Miami last month with parties and a parade during an official Nicaraguan Liberty Week. The star attraction was Fernando Chamorro, head of one of the smaller rebel armies. "We are trying to get a little visibility, to let the American public know us," said Chamorro. "We are here with great optimism and hope that the American government, and more important, the American people, will back us in our fight." Other groups arguing the contra cause include Lehrman...
...sustaining the controversy and heightening the tension, Sovern has protracted a drama which draws intense press coverage. The media remains fascinated by the judicial battle, a contest pitting rebel students against the "Establishment" and prominent First Amendment attorneys against each other. Sovern should have foreseen the possibility of television news anchors leading their broadcasts with "Day 18 of the Columbia Hostage Crisis" if he crossed swords with the protesters on the judicial battlefield...
...decade later, the U.S. has gone a long way toward turning the tables on Moscow. In many civil wars today, it is Soviet-backed regimes that face insurgencies. Frequently the U.S. provides some degree of support to the rebel forces...