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Example sentences for: contra

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In 1987, Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times encountered a contra patrol in northern Nicaragua, chatted with the men amicably for an hour or so, and then got ready to leave.
The Times of London urged Clinton to follow the examples of Nixon and Reagan, who had tried to restore their reputations during the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals by throwing themselves into foreign affairs.
Bennett won the battle against Iran-Contra Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh by turning the case against the prosecution.
In the course of his assessment of the likely impact of the Clinton scandal on the book biz, the WP 's literary reporter David Streitfeld points out that the New Yorker 's Jeffrey Toobin has performed the "journalism equivalent of a triple lutz": writing books on Iran Contra, OJ, and Bill-Monica.
When the San Jose Mercury News recently published its findings linking the CIA and Contra drug-runners, the rumors flared anew.