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Early last week there were disturbing signs that the cease-fire might never come to pass. In one of his final acts as Nicaragua's President, Daniel Ortega Saavedra demanded that the contras disarm before Chamorro's inauguration this week and suggested that failure to cooperate might jeopardize the peaceful transfer of power. Asked if the inauguration would take place as scheduled, he answered, "We are studying that. We are very close to peace and very close to war." The contra contingent that arrived in Managua the next day for cease- fire negotiations fanned the tension by vowing to avoid...
...impasse posed an immediate challenge to the mediating skills of President-elect Chamorro. Like a firm mother who knows how to bring squabbling children into line, she called representatives of the two sides to her home, starting with the contras, who had supported her presidential campaign. Two hours later Chamorro announced, "The boys are ready to sign an agreement...
Next she invited Ortega. At the end of their 90-minute discussion, the Sandinista leader stood beside Chamorro on her doorstep and announced, "I want to make it clear that on April 25 there will be a transfer of power." As a bonus concession, Ortega also announced that visa requirements for Americans seeking to enter Nicaragua had been lifted. Then the past and future Presidents hugged...
That afternoon cease-fire negotiations between Sandinistas and contras began. The bargainers worked through the night, and at 4:30 a.m. they signed their agreement. The turning point in the negotiation was a face-saving arrangement put forward by Chamorro's representatives whereby the contras signed a demobilization agreement with the incoming government -- not with the Sandinistas...
...Chamorro demonstrated diplomatic agility with the Sandinistas as well. In negotiating the transfer of power, the outgoing government's paramount concern was maintaining the integrity of the Sandinista army, considered to be the guarantor of Nicaragua's revolutionary progress. Chamorro worked out an agreement whereby the army will not be disbanded, but her government can reduce its size and determine how it can be used. She faced down demands that Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel's brother, keep his post as army commander...