| And the movie accepts his assertion that he knew nothing of the illegal diversion of funds to the contras fighting in Nicaragua. |
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| His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media. |
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| During the 1980s the contras, strongly backed by the United States, raised 18,000 troops to fight the revolution. |
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| The contras were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, a Marxist-infiltrated regime. |
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| But the Sandinistas, not the contras, now threatened armed resistance to the new democratic government. |
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| At the time, the US was covertly backing the contras, the counter-revolutionaries who opposed the Sandinistas. |
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| In Nicaragua, meanwhile, many of those recently arrested for gun-running have turned out to be either former contras or members of the Sandinista army. |
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| Such acts could well be committed by members of the contras without the control of the United States. |
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| This info session is focused on people who want to know more about the pro and contras of investing in trackers. |
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| Actually some of the contras whom I knew were the moral equivalent of pathological killers. |
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| The main emphasis of external relations regarding energy networks is put on the introduction of competition and of regulation on the electricity and natural gas markets of the third contras concerned. |
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| We prepared a table showing the pros and contras of the arguments for you. |
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| Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances. |
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| The contras operated out of camps in the neighboring countries of Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. |
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| During the war between the contras and the Sandinistas, 30,000 people were killed. |
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| What was it Ronald Reagan called the contras and the Afghan mujahedin? |
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| Police, army, and Sandinistas killed former Contras, and northern Contra bands committed similar acts, often because of land disputes. |
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| A decade after laying down their arms, the Contras and the Sandinistas are squaring off in an election that could return Daniel Ortega to power. |
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| If you hear the word Nicaragua and think Sandinistas and Contras, you're nearly two decades behind the times. |
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| In 1986 the World Court ruled that the US had violated international law by mining the waters of Nicaragua and arming the Contras. |
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| The cocaine trade in Central America flourished when the US administration was backing the Contras to fight the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. |
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| When we supported the Contras against the Sandinista dictatorship, we took the opposite position and, according to the Left, we were wrong again. |
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| But it did not stop financial and political support to the Contras, it only forced the US administration to act secretively and cautiously. |
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