The CDS's organized civilian defense efforts against Contra activities and a network of intelligence systems in order to apprehend their supporters.

Additionally some of the close embraces and turns of the original Allemande were carried over to Square Dance and Contra Dance, with the moves " Allemande left " and " Allemande right ", ( often spelled " Alamand ") in which couples hold hands and turn around each other.

" Unlike most chat rooms, in which the loudest voices often rule, the site allows members to rank the comments they respect ," explained the Contra Costa Times.

However, a barn dance can also feature square dancing, Morris dancing, Contra dancing, English Country Dance, dancing to Country and Western music, or any other kind of dancing, often with a live band and a Caller.

He illustrated casuistry by citing mostly Jesuitic texts allowing excuses to abstain from fasting ( citing Vincenzo Filliucci's Moralium quaestionum de christianis officiis et casibus conscientiae ... tomus, Lyon, 1622 ; often cited by Escobar ); from giving to the poor ( indirectly citing Gabriel Vasquez from Diana ; for a monk temporarily defrocking himself to go to the brothel ( citing an exact quote of Sanchez from Escobar, who was curving around Pius IV's Contra sollicitantes and Pius V's Contra clericos papal bulls, the latter directed against sodomite clergy )); in the Seventh Letter, propositions allowing homicides ( even to the clergy ) and duels as long as the intention is not directed for revenge ; others permitting corruption of judges as long as it is not intended as corruption ; others allowing usury or Mohatra contracts ; casuistic propositions allowing robbery and stealing from one's master ; others allowing lying through the use of rhetorical " mental reservation " ( restrictio mentalis ; for instance: saying, loudly " I swear that ...", silently " I said that ...", and loudly again the object of the pledge ) and equivocations.

In this struggle under the Sandinistas, La Prensa was also often accused of being puppets of the CIA They were accused of being Contra sympathizers and thus, " venda-patrias " or traitors to the motherland.

It alleged that Americas Watch gave too much credence to alleged Contra abuses and systematically tried to discredit Nicaraguan human rights groups such as the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, which blamed the major human rights abuses on the Sandinistas.

A Sandinista militiaman interviewed by The Guardian stated that Contra rebels committed these atrocities against Sandinista prisoners after a battle at a Sandinista rural outpost: " Rosa had her breasts cut off.

Quintilian speaks of three orations by Sulpicius as still in existence ; one of these was the speech against Murena, another Pro or Contra Aufidium, of whom nothing is known.

The Ophites accepted the existence of these seven archons ( Origen, Contra Celsum, vi.

Contra: these words are rare and it is therefore more probable that * zd was absorbed by * dz (< * dj, * gj, * j ); further, a change from the cluster / zd / to the affricate / dz / is typologically more likely than the other way around ( which would violate the sonority hierarchy ).

# Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus and Theocritus have σδ for Attic-Ionic ζ. Contra: The tradition would not have invented this special digraph for these poets if was the normal pronunciation in all Greek.

It is also possible for Super Game Boy games to make use of the SNES hardware for extra effects, as demonstrated in Contra: The Alien Wars, Donkey Kong, Kirby's Dream Land 2, A Bug's Life, Animaniacs and Toy Story ; these games had expanded sound when used with the Super Game Boy.

The letters tend not to concern questions of bidding or play – these are dealt with in other features such as Pro et Contra ( discontinued after Oswald Jacoby's death in 1984 ).

Edgar Chamorro, a former Contra and member of the FDN's political directorate who later became a critic of the Contras, stated that during his time with the Contras, he frequently received reports about atrocities committed by Contra troops against civilians and against Sandinista prisoners: " As time went on, I became more and more troubled by the frequent reports I received of atrocities committed by our troops against civilians and against Sandinista prisoners.

Leftist critics usually argued that the United States itself created a " moral equivalence " when some of its actions, such as President Ronald Reagan's support for the Contra insurgency against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, put it on the same level of immorality as the Soviet Union.

Mutual exhaustion, Sandinista fears of Contra unity and military success, and mediation by other regional governments led to the Sapoa ceasefire between the Sandinistas and the Contras on March 23, 1988.

Its primary task has been to prevent disorder and violence wrought by armed bands of former Contra and Sandinista soldiers.

In Nicaragua, the Contra War ended after the Sandinista government, facing military and political pressure, agreed to new elections, in which the contras ' political wing participated, in 1990.

The CIA made extensive use of Contra death squads in Nicaragua to destabilize the Sandinista government, which the U. S. maintained was communist.

In early March, 1988, the Nicaraguan Sandinista government launched Operation Danto to overrun Contra rebel supply caches in the San Andrés de Bocay region, crossing into Honduran territory in their drive.

Within days, the Sandinista government negotiated a truce with Contra leaders, and by the end of March the 27th Infantry had returned to Fort Ord, California and the paratroopers of the 504th had returned to Fort Bragg.

This position lost AIM some support from certain US Marxist organizations in the U. S. who opposed Contra activities and supported the Sandinista movement.

After a short period of peace, civil war began again between government troops of the new Sandinista regime and the Contra rebels who felt betrayed by the Sandinistas and were funded by the United States.

A humiliating hostage crisis ensued in August 1978 when Sandinista rebels led by " Comandante Cero ( Commander Zero )" future Contra leader Eden Pastora took over the National Assembly.

His exclusive reports included combat coverage of the first town to fall to Sandinista rebels, the first delivery of U. S. gunships to El Salvador, the first visit to Contra camps in Honduras, and the last interview with Sister Ita Ford before her murder by the Salvadoran military.

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It concludes that the scandal, involving a complicated plan whereby some of the funds from secret weapons sales to Iran were used to finance the Contra war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, was one in which the administration of Ronald Reagan exhibited " secrecy, deception, and disdain for the law.

In 1984, Greytown was bombarded and destroyed again in a Sandinista – Contra conflict in which the United States, while supporting the Contras, attacked the town on 9 April 1984.

Clarridge was also instrumental in organizing and recruiting Contra forces to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government.

* Iran-Contra scandal: U. S. President Reagan signed a Presidential Finding, secretly authorizing the CIA to provide direct assistance to the Contra rebels, led by Eden Pastora, in overthrowing the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

A press conference had been arranged in the guerrilla outpost of La Penca by Edén Pastora, a former Sandinista who had switched allegiance to the Contra rebels.

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

The United States established a continuing military presence in Honduras with the purpose of supporting the Contra guerillas fighting the Nicaraguan government and also developed an air strip and a modern port in Honduras.

Contra militants based in Honduras waged a guerilla war to topple the then-Marxist government of Nicaragua.

She writes that the CIA was encouraging Contra terror and then indirectly by the U. S. government and President Reagan, violating Reagan ’ s own Presidential Directive.

Several groups, however, disputed this: including UNO, a broad coalition of anti-Sandinista activists, COSEP, an organization of business leaders, the Contra group " FDN ", organized by former Somozan-era National Guardsmen, landowners, businessmen, peasant highlanders, and what some claimed as their patron, the U. S. government.

Defenders of the defeated government assert that Nicaraguans voted for the opposition due to the continuing U. S. economic embargo and potential Contra threat.

As evidence for the manner in which the media has shaped public opinion on foreign policy, he turns to the role of the U. S. government in protecting its economic interests in the Central American nation of Nicaragua, first by supporting the military junta of General Somoza and then by supporting the Contra militias, in both instances leading to mass human rights abuses against the Nicaraguan populace which were ignored by the mainstream U. S. media.

When the Somoza government was overthrown in 1979, Blandón fled to the United States, and then raised money for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force ( FDN ), a Contra group.

By covertly disseminating intelligence leaks to journalists, it sought to trump up a Nicaraguan " threat ," and to sanctify the U. S .- backed Contra guerrillas fighting Nicaragua's government as " freedom fighters.