Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildup in the Bocay Valley in northern Nicaragua. But when the attacks began on March 10, they were even larger than expected. The Nicaraguan strategy was to destroy the contra bases along the Coco River, which separates Honduras from Nicaragua, and to capture a vital depot on the Honduran side of the border. The stockpile contains an estimated 300 tons of supplies that the CIA had flown into the area before the Feb. 29 funding cutoff. Without those arms and provisions, the contras' ability to wage warfare would be virtually nonexistent...
...week extension passed last week, only 51% of the securities had been redeemed. Stalling, First City has postponed its deadline to March 29. Frank Anderson, an independent banking analyst, likens the maneuvering between First City and its bondholders to "a high-stakes poker game in which neither side is willing to give...
...Japan, Big Bob (.327, 31 HR, 73 RBI in 93 Japanese games). The Cards will need some punch from Willie McGee and Tommy Herr (.263, 2 HR, 83 RBI). John Tudor (10-2) and the rest of the staff will have to keep the runs on the low side for the Cards to even think of repeating. Best player: McGee...
...latest events make it clear that instead of sincerely complying with the peace plan, each side is twisting the plan to further its own ideological ambitions. The Administration, which fought long and hard against any non-lethal aid to the contras, is clearly using the events of this past week to win the recent debate over renewing military aid and thereby proceed with its announced intention of overthrowing the Sandinista government...
...past seven years Reagan has applied his supply-side tenets to the country's social programs--and this ideology has failed as badly as it did with the nation's economy. Reagan has reversed the strides taken in the 1960s--showing utter indifference to the struggles Blacks and other minorities have undergone to obtain even limited access to consitutional rights...