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...August by five Central American Presidents. While the Reagan Administration countered Ortega's offer with a call for direct talks, contra leaders hailed the announcement as a "triumph for the resistance." After listening to Ortega's speech on radio in Costa Rica, they urged that Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's ranking churchman, be tapped to mediate the talks. The next day, Ortega visited the Cardinal's office and later emerged with Obando to announce that Obando had agreed to take the job. A date and place for the first meeting remain...
Still, a clamor is building for a negotiated cease-fire in Nicaragua. Bolstered by the peace prize, Arias renewed his calls last week for indirect talks between the Sandinistas and the contra leaders to be mediated by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Primate. "There's a new mood in Central America now," Arias told TIME. "I hope President Ortega will revise his position and accept dialogue." Two other signatories to the peace plan, El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Honduras' President Jose Azcona Hoyo, echoed Arias' appeal...
...judge it on its past actions. Would a truly legitimate government need to censor the press, force all opposition candidates out of its "free" presidential elections, and murder, torture, and jail political dissenters? Opposition leaders, such as Edgar Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Maria Aristides Sanchez, and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, are surely much more legitimate representatives of the Nicaraguan people than Ortega and the Sandinistas...
...House of Representatives hummed with excitement as Congressmen and Senators, many with their spouses and children in tow, awaited the man of the hour. When Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez arrived, the crowd swept to its feet as shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!" echoed through the chamber. That exuberant welcome was a measure of the respect that Arias has won on Capitol Hill for the peace plan conceived by him and signed two months ago by five Central American Presidents in Guatemala City. Arias' 30-minute address to the informal joint gathering of Congress was teeming with platitudes and somewhat...
Arias was more measured in his assessment, though not more enthusiastic. "It is a positive gesture," he said. "But the only way to obtain a durable peace is a negotiated cease-fire." Toward that end, Arias has proposed that Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, one of the Sandinistas' most respected critics and chairman of the Reconciliation Commission, serve as a mediator between the two sides. The contras have embraced the idea and called for talks to begin Oct. 4, but the Sandinistas have not responded. That date, incidentally, may also be important in El Salvador. Both the government...