The World - News from Sept. 19, 1985
Nicaragua alleged at the World Court that the Reagan Administration has “conceived, created and organized” the contra rebel movement seeking to overthrow the Sandinista government. Harvard law professor Abram Chayes, representing Nicaragua, made the accusation in the fifth day of hearings in The Hague. The Reagan Administration is boycotting the proceedings, in which Nicaragua charges the United States with waging “armed attacks” to topple the Sandinista regime.
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