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- Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ?
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- Who Were the "Contras" ?
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- "The contras have ROUTINELY attacked civilian populations. Their
- forces kidnap, torture, and murder health workers, teachers, and other
- government employees." -- Americas Watch
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- "_Terrorism_ is premeditated, politically motivated violence
- perpetrated against NONCOMBATANT TARGETS by subnational groups or
- clandestine state agents" -- U.S.. Department of State, _Patterns of
- Global Terrorism: 1983_, Sept. 1984.
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- [Capitalization added]
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- (*)From the Americas Watch report _With Friends Like These_, edited by
- Cynthia Brown (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985). For the contras'
- history and human rights practices, see also Christopher Dickey, _With
- the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua_ (New York: Simon
- and Schuster, 1985), and Reed Brody's _Contra Terror in Nicaragua:
- Report of a Fact-Finding Mission, September 1984-January 1985 (Boston:
- South End Press, 1985)
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- [Found in: _What Are We Afraid Of? An Assessment of the ``Communist
- Threat'' in Central America_ by John Lamperti, for the American
- Friends Service Committee (published also by South End Press) $5 plus
- $2 shipping from: Literature Resources // American Friends Service
- Committee // 1501 Cherry St. // Philadelphia, PA 19102
- TEL (215)-241-7048 or 7167. See AML resource files AFSCcatalog and
- South.end.press.]
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- T h e " N i c a r a g u a L i b r a r y "
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- * Nicaragua
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- WHO-WERE CONTRAS Contras' origins; make-up; practices - documented
- FSLN H-RIGHTS Documented HRs comparison w/Somoza,Guat,ES,others
- FSLN MISKITOS Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
- FSLN NICAJEWS Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
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- OXFAM84 NICARAG Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
- FSLN ACHIEVE Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
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- NICA-84 ELECTION Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
- FAIRNESS NICA-USA Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
- NICRAGUA ELECTION Study in US subversion of '90 Nicaraguan election
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