Word: somocista
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...Democrat who wrote speeches for Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter, Aronson was also author of Ronald Reagan's 1986 address that rescued a $100 million aid appropriation for the contras by calling for a purge of their Somocista leadership. "Bernie was pushing for a bipartisan Central America policy long before it became fashionable," says Secretary of State James Baker...
...front, which operates near the border with Costa Rica, announced they were pulling out of the Resistance. In a bitterly worded communique, they said, "The struggle against the Managua dictatorship is ill served by placing in the highest military command of the insurgency an ex-colonel of the hated Somocista National Guard...
...field. The Sandinistas find themselves stretched and on the defensive. Most ominously, the internal opposition is talking to the contras about what the Sandinistas fear will be a "united front" of the kind they used to topple Somoza. That, for what until recently was derided as a rump Somocista army, is legitimacy. Legitimacy has come from yet another source. "By agreeing to negotiate with the contras," says Representative Lee Hamilton, a leading opponent of contra aid, "the Sandinistas have in effect recognized the legitimacy of the contras...
Surviving ABC cameraman Tony Avirgan together with his wife Martha Honey investigated the bombing to identify the perpetrators. They concluded that Adolfo Calero and the C.I.A. ordered the bombing to assassinate Pastora. For at the press conference, Pastora was about to denounce the F.D.N., Calero's Somocista comrades, and his C.I.A. controllers, and publicly refuse to submit to their unified command...
...Managua the Sandinistas announced they would try Hasenfus in a political tribunal scheduled to begin this week. Charged with violating laws guaranteeing order and public security, he could face 30 years in prison. The announcement was a rebuff to U.S. officials who have dismissed the Anti- Somocista People's Tribunals, as they are formally known, as kangaroo courts. According to the America's Watch Committee, a New York City-based human rights group, just one of the 559 defendants who came before the tribunals in 1985 was acquitted...