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...Congress missed the significance of the white hat cocked on his head, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra spelled out his good intentions last week during celebrations to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sandinista takeover in Nicaragua. In an effort to diminish U.S. anger over the expulsion of its Ambassador to Managua two weeks ago, Ortega announced that he would extend his country's fragile cease-fire with the contras, now in its fifth month, until Aug. 30. He also called for better relations with Washington and invited the leaders of the Nicaraguan Resistance, an umbrella group of Sandinista opponents...
Ford, who was defeated by Jimmy Carter in thetight 1976 election, refrained from assessingDukakis' qualifications for the White House,saying that he didn't know enough about him. Buthe did say that Bush's experiences as acongressman, CIA director and U.S. ambassador tothe U.N. make him uniquely qualified to handlecomplex foreign policy issues as president...
While La Prensa and Radio Catolica were being silenced, Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann summoned U.S. Ambassador Richard Melton to his office. Melton, a career diplomat who arrived in Managua three months ago, listened as D'Escoto accused the U.S. embassy of fomenting unrest and then gave the Ambassador and seven other U.S. diplomats three days to leave the country...
...clampdown in Managua pushed already strained U.S.-Nicaraguan relations close to the breaking point. Declaring, "We are going to return the favor," President Reagan ordered the expulsion of Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Tunnermann and seven of his fellow diplomats. But the most potentially far- reaching U.S. response was a renewed drive for military aid for the contras. Though the issue was virtually dead before last week, Reagan pledged his support for a $47 million assistance package, introduced Wednesday by Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole, that includes $20 million for weapons and ammunition...
Last week seven American foreign policy specialists completed a rare visit along both sides of the still heavily fortified Sino-Soviet frontier. The two- week trip was organized by the New York City-based National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The delegation was led by former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman and former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General John Wickham. The only journalist in the group was TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who filed this report...