Word: accords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That much was clear as the initial cease-fire deadline came and went last week without anyone proclaiming the plan a failure. During separate trips to / the U.S. last month, Ortega and Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo had warned that they would no longer feel bound by the accord if cease-fires, amnesties, cut-offs of foreign aid to rebels, and other goals were not achieved on schedule. Yet both men remained committed to the proposal, even as rebel violence continued in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The White House had planned to use the failed deadline to push...
...buckle under the weight of details. A central concern is whether Nicaragua's Marxist-oriented comandantes will honor their commitments to democratic reform and peaceful coexistence with their neighbors, or are merely making temporary moves to ensure the destruction of the contras. Since the signing of the accord, Nicaragua has taken several small steps, among them reopening the opposition daily La Prensa and Radio Catolica, inviting three exiled priests to return home and beginning talks with Nicaragua's opposition parties. But, warns an Arias aide, "we see all kinds of indications that Ortega would like to wriggle...
...Duarte, the Guatemala peace accord represented a chance to repair his country. But even Duarte's friends now concede that he may not be up to the job. As the power brokers pursue their separate visions of peace, ordinary men and women look on helplessly. Meanwhile, the Jeeps and trucks with blackened glass cruise the streets, most carrying only motorists seeking respite from the glaring sun. But the people of El Salvador have learned to fear anything they cannot...
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra occasionally tries to reconcile his rhetoric with the spirit of the Guatemala accord, but the message is not always clear. FORWARD WITH THE FRONT, shouts the party's official 1987 slogan from billboards and walls around Managua. HERE NO ONE SURRENDERS. The government has in fact surrendered some ground since signing the peace agreement, but the real issues at the root of the conflict have not been addressed. Nicaragua is at war with itself, as it has been before in a history as violent as the tropical storms that sweep across the isthmus...
...process. You get the impression that only Nicaragua is obligated to comply, and only it is being publicly singled out, and not Honduras, where there are contra bases, or Costa Rica, where contra leaders live and where armed groups are launching attacks against Nicaragua. This is prohibited by the accord...