Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still far too early for the U.S. to draw firm conclusions about Rafsanjani. Virtually everything in the region is so riddled with confusion that no one last week could say for sure whether Higgins was executed on Monday, as his captors claimed, or months ago and the tape of his execution saved for use at a later, advantageous moment. It was not even certain that it was Higgins whose body was shown in the tape. Forensic experts at the FBI were carefully measuring and comparing the features of the man in the videotape with photographs of the captured Marine...
...still limited. Terrorist cells are small, often based on family ties, and very hard to crack. The killing of two of the CIA's top Middle East operatives, former hostage William Buckley and Robert Ames, severely crippled what little was left of any U.S. intelligence network in the region...
EXPERTS say the accords, signed in Tela, Honduras, by the leaders of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala, signal the end of the Contras. Most assuredly, the United States will not be able to wield as much influence in the region when the threat of the Contras no longer exists...
...Contras will have to disband soon. After eight years of fighting, they have played little role in the political outcomes in the region--a fact illustrated by the Tela accords that failed to include them...
...Central American Presidents have taken the destiny of Central America in our hands," Arias said in Tela, and the rebels obviously have no place in any future decision-making in the region...