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They Never Knew They Won |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Russ Braley |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,152 Words, 13,462 Characters |
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EVERYBODY HAD HIS OWN GRINGO
The CIA & the Contras
Glenn Garvin, foreword by P.J. O'Rourke
Washington, New York, London: Brassey's/Macmillan, 1992
274 pp., $23.95
The Contras of Nicaragua never were favorites of the American public or the U.S. news media during their decade-long civil war with the communist-run Sandinistas government. Hollywood had given its heart to Sandinistas when they defeated, then assassinated, dictator Anastasio Somoza. Television, the liberal press, and peace groups, including some churches, branded the Contras thugs of the former National Guard or tools of a malevolent CIA. House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill and his Massachusetts delegation, especially Rep. Edward P. Boland, worked hard to isolate them. Sen. John Kerry (Massachusetts) probed...
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...eauty who lured Somocista Gen. Reynaldo Perez to his castration and death but later could make friends in the U.S. Congress as the Sandinistas' UN ambassador. Or Pastora's twenty-two children by various mothers, or the U.S. ambassador who had an affair in Managua with Indiana Perez, Sandinista sister of Bianca Jagger. One suspects that there will be a sequel to Everybody Had His Own Gringo.
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