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...lost. It was Aronson's turn to reassure Pavlov. If the arms flow to the F.M.L.N. was reduced, he said, Washington would "do all it could" to press for serious negotiations. The echoes of the Nicaraguan settlement are distinct: Baker is trying to fashion the same kind of bipartisan accord on El Salvador that worked so well for Nicaragua, and the U.S. is strongly supporting the current U.N.-mediated peace talks between the government and the F.M.L.N...
...respond favorably when the Sandinistas took positive steps. "The more evidence Managua sees that the U.S. is willing to coexist with them after the elections, assuming they win," said Pavlov, "the easier it will be to create a free and fair election." On Aug. 4, the Sandinistas signed an accord with the democratic opposition calling for the disbanding of the contras and general elections in February 1990. On Aug. 7, in the tortured syntax that defines diplomatese, Baker said publicly the U.S. was "very pleased with the steps that Nicaragua has taken to establish a dialogue with the opposition...
...Soviet confidence that the military threat to Managua was lessening. In response, Aronson described as a concession the scaling back of U.S. maneuvers in Honduras. He cited the cutoff of humanitarian assistance to a contra commander who had independently attacked a Sandinista outpost in violation of the Bipartisan Accord's ban on offensive operations. He mentioned the closing of the contras' political office in Miami (although in fact the CIA had shut the office to save money). These efforts, said Aronson -- and the return of the contras' political leadership to Managua to compete in the elections -- should be taken...
...meeting with the ten provincial premiers at Meech Lake in the Gatineau hills of Quebec, Mulroney devised a set of amendments that would finally satisfy the demands of the Quebecois and bring them to sign the national constitution "with honor and enthusiasm." But by last week the Meech Lake accord had turned a symbol of renewed division and intolerance between English- and French-speaking Canadians...
...Administration's warm words came with a last-minute accord in which Tokyo pledged to open the Japanese market to increased imports of U.S. wood products. That issue was the last of three conflicts that forced the Administration last year to cite Japan under the so-called Super 301 provision of the 1988 trade law. In the other two categories, Tokyo agreed to buy more U.S. supercomputers and satellites. The Administration has won similar concessions from Brazil, another of the three countries named on last year's hit list; only India will be named again...