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Acquired Immuno-deficiency syndrome, a virus that killed many people starting in the early 1980s
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AIDS
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In the 1980s, a member of the ruling Marxist group in Nicaragua
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Sandinista
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Spanish for "counterrevolutionary," a rebel opposed to Nicaragua's Communist government in the 1980s
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Contra
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, an agreement signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev the provided for the destruction of about 2,500 Soviet and American missiles in Europe
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INF Treaty
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Government program that guarantees payments to a particular group, such as the elderly
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entitlement
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Scandal during the Reagan administration involving the use of money from secret Iranian arms sales to support the Nicaraguan Contras
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Iran-Contra affair
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