Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...others named with Escobar were the three Ochoa Vasquez brothers, Jorge Luis, Juan David and Fabio, who manage the ring's distribution networks, as well as Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, a former Colombian legislator who is suspected of financing terrorist attacks on his own government. The indictment names four lower-level associates, including Federico Vaughan, a former aide to Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez, who is accused of helping the cartel set up cocaine labs in Nicaragua. Using incriminating photos of Vaughan supplied by Seal, the Reagan Administration has accused Nicaragua's Sandinista government of involvement in drug trafficking...
Responding to the committee's questions, he said: "There continues to be terrorist acts in Iran of the type that we find to be reprehensible...
State Department spokesmen had been saying for weeks that while Iran remained on a list of nations officially identified as "terrorist-sponsoring states," they would not provide evidence that nation has sponsored any recent terrorist acts...
...arms embargo against that country for promoting terrorism. Worse yet, the shipments, which broke the spirit and perhaps the letter of U.S. law, had become entangled with murky efforts to barter for the release of American hostages, even as the U.S. was proclaiming that it would never deal with terrorist kidnapers...
...World Wars, but even those ceremonies were skipped by the French Secretary of State for Veterans. If French officialdom seemed intent on ignoring Botha, , others were not. In Paris, three bombs exploded at the headquarters of companies with links to South Africa. No one was hurt. The terrorist group Action Directe took responsibility for the blasts...