1981: Reagan Orders "Lethal Assistance" to Contras in Nicaragua, with Training by Argentine Military Dictatorship
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December 1, 1981—President Reagan signs a finding providing for the first lethal assistance to the contras to oppose the Sandinista government in Nicaragua; $19 million is to be spent to train and arm a 500-man paramilitary force in conjunction with Argentina. The finding is outlined to the congressional intelligence committees as an effort to save El Salvador by interdicting arms shipments from Nicaragua to the leftist rebels in El Salvador.

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US military intervention in the Philippines

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