After this, he went to Nicaragua to aid the government in fighting Contra rebels.

A mediator began talks today with rearmed contra rebels who kidnapped 33 election workers and spirited them across the border to Honduras.

Beginning in 1981, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly trained, armed and supplied thousands of Contra rebels.

He has opposed expenditures on several weapons systems, opposed military aid for the Contra rebels and spoken up for Palestinian rights.

Proceeds were channelled to right-wing Contra rebels fighting the Marxist government of Nicaragua.

Many revolutionaries, in turn, fought alongside the Sandinistas against the Contra rebels supported by the United States.

The United Nations reception centres for Contra rebels to return and lay down their weapons, opened for business in an atmosphere of hope rather than anticipation.

There was a law at the time banning our government from sending money or weapons to the Contra rebels who were battling the communist government in Nicaragua.

In the 1980's, it was used to aid American-backed Contra rebels fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

North's can-do creativity helped to prop up a collection of caudillo wannabes - the Contra rebels - to incite civil war in Nicaragua.