Who were the "contras"?
A) They were a group formed by members of the Palestine Liberation Organization to overthrow the Israeli government.
B) They were a group financed by the CIA to undermine the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
C) According to President Reagan, they were all American hostages around the world.
D) They were bands of evangelical Christians who traveled the country inveighing against sexual permissiveness and secular humanism.
E) They were the members of the underground movement in the Soviet Union that was working to bring democracy, capitalism, and Christianity to that communist land.
B
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