Word: sandinistas
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Gonna: Kathleen Turner, Peggy Sue Got Married. It was an okay performance in a terrible movie, but Sissy Spacek has already won, Marlee Matlin has a funny name, and nobody wants to hear Jane Fonda give a speech about her new political work-out video, Sandinista's Aerobicising Against Apartheid...
Reagan's proposal was to provide the rebels with non-lethal equipment unless the Sandinista government entered into serious negotiations with the Contras on national reconciliation...
Support for the House bill was spurred by the resignation of Arturo Cruz from the triumvirate that heads the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the contras' political arm. Cruz, a onetime Sandinista who has been a consistent advocate of democratic reforms within the rebel movement, never had much power, but his presence was a symbol that the contras were more than just a collection of embittered former supporters of deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Cruz's absence creates greater doubts about the caliber of the contra leadership. Elliott Abrams, the State Department's point man on the contra issue, disagrees. "The reform...
...case before the court involved Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca, 38, a Nicaraguan who now lives in Nevada. Cardoza-Fonseca unsuccessfully claimed before theINS that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between...
...week Reagan made a formal request to the lawmakers to release the last installment of $100 million in aid that was granted to the Nicaraguan contras in 1986. To win the release of the $40 million, the Administration had to certify that peaceful efforts to reform Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista regime have been futile. Congressional Democrats hope to counter Reagan's move by imposing a moratorium on any further contra aid until the Administration accounts for money that has already been sent to the rebels, including the funds diverted from the Iranian arms sales and contributions solicited from private sources...