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Contra

Member of a Central American right‐wing guerrilla force attempting to overthrow the democratically elected Nicaraguan Sandinista government between 1979 and 1990. The Contras, many of them mercenaries or former members of the deposed dictator Somoza's guard (see Nicaraguan Revolution), operated mainly from bases outside Nicaragua, mostly in Honduras, with covert US funding, as revealed by the Irangate hearings of 1986–87.

In 1989 US president Bush announced an agreement with Congress to provide $41 million in ‘nonlethal’ aid to the Contras until February 1990. The Sandinista government was defeated by the National Opposition Union, a US‐backed coalition, in the February 1990 elections. The Contras were disbanded in the same year but, fearing reprisals, a few hundred formed the Re‐Contra (officially the 380 Legion) February 1991. A peace accord was reached with the government 1994.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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3 February 1988
Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
9 March 1562
Kissing in public is banned in Naples, contravention being punishable by death.
25 May 1995
Business consortium Camelot wins the contract to run Britain's first National Lottery.
5 July 1989
US Army Colonel Oliver North, found guilty of being involved in the Iran-Contra affair, is fined $150,000 and given a suspended jail sentence.
18 August 1960
The birth control pill - the first oral contraceptive - is launched by the Searle Drug Company in the United States.
20 August 1940
World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallies the nation with a contratulatory speech for the RAF winning the Battle of Britain. 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'.
20 September 1995
A European Court decides that transfer fees between clubs within the European Community are illegal when a player reaches the end of his contract. The judgement becomes known as the 'Bosman Ruling' following the a legal case brought by Belgian footballer Marc Bosman against his club FC Liege.
16 December 1998
USA & Britain combine bombing attacks on Iraq after United Nations weapons inspectors are expelled from the country-contrary to assurances given by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
 

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