English to Icelandic Meaning of contra - contra-

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(1) Some military bases were covers for Nicaraguan contras .(2) Had Honduras been found to be engaging in systematic abuses, it could have lost its US aid - thwarting the Reagan Administration's use of Honduras to support the contras .(3) The contras were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, a Marxist-infiltrated regime.(4) And the movie accepts his assertion that he knew nothing of the illegal diversion of funds to the contras fighting in Nicaragua.(5) The most dramatic iteration came on the floor of the Senate in 1986, when he made it the centerpiece of a carefully prepared 20-minute oration against aid to the Nicaraguan contras .(6) When the Sandinista government of Nicaragua tried to take the United States to court for supporting the contras in the 1980s, for example, the U.S. government simply ignored the action.(7) His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media.(8) At the time, the US was covertly backing the contras , the counter-revolutionaries who opposed the Sandinistas.(9) Reich ran the domestic propaganda campaign for the Reagan administration's program backing the Nicaraguan contras , and was nominated with strong backing from right-wing anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami.(10) 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.(11) During the 1980s the contras , strongly backed by the United States, raised 18,000 troops to fight the revolution.(12) But the Sandinistas, not the contras , now threatened armed resistance to the new democratic government.
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