Contra
Contra Right-wing Nicaraguan revolutionary group active between 1979 and 1990. Supporters of the former dictator General Anastasio
Somoza, ousted in 1979, the Contra aimed to overthrow the elected, left-wing
Sandinista government. The Contra received financial and military assistance from the US government from mid-1986. Elections were subsequently held in Nicaragua in 1990, at which the US-funded Union of National Opposition
(UNO), effectively the political wing of the Contra, was victorious. The Contra were officially disbanded, but social conditions within Nicaragua remained unstable. See also
Iran-Contra affair
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Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...policies, and supportingthe development of international legal standards consistent with theseobjectives...standard oftreatment grounded in customary international law; - freedom of investmentfrom specified...publication of investment-related laws, regulations, and other measures...
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Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/4/2009; 700+ words
; ...the United States before an international financialinstitution that...while concentratingbroadly on international economic and security affairs...others. Since graduating from law school,I have devoted myself...the region. My work as an international lawyerand banker has afforded...
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Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...are essentially identical to laws on the books inMichigan, Connecticut...arematters purely of federal law or compliance and one of the...enterprise and has enacted laws that provide law enforcement withbetter access...And Delaware respondedto international criticism that U.S. company...
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Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 9/24/2009; 700+ words
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Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 9/30/2009; 700+ words
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PELOSI STATEMENT ON HOUSE PASSAGE OF PAKISTAN ASSISTANCE BILL
Transcript from: Capitol Hill Press Releases; 9/30/2009; 345 words
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Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 10/1/2009; 700+ words
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Frears, Stephen Arthur
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Gemayel, Bashir
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...in Beirut and received degrees in law and political science. While attending...traveled to the United States to take a law course. In 1972, he received a degree from the American and International Law Academy in Plano, Texas. During...
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Calatrava, Santiago
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Sanitago Calatrava (born 1951) has gained international celebrity for structures that suggest...the 1930s in Spain, and they saw an international future as their son's best chance...and married his wife, Robertina, a law student and later lawyer who has played...
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Lagos, Ricardo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...internally, while forging international ties with countries around the world. Early Interest in Law and Politics Lagos was born...of Chile. There he studied law and was first interested in...the middle class and upset international leaders such as Richard M...
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