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GUATEMALA CITY--Peace talks between the leftist Nicaraguan government and contra rebels broke down yesterday, with their mediator indirectly blaming the Sandinistas for not accepting a new cease-fire proposal...
...news conference after the talks ended, Jaime Morales, the chief contra negotiator, said his team had the ability to make decisions on the spot, noting that the rebels had accepted Obando y Bravo's proposal Thursday night...
...attorney quoted the Nicaraguan president as saying he would be willing to talk to Obando y Bravo about his proposal but did not want his negotiators to discuss it at the contra talks...
...Kennedy School is training the CIA to use its intelligence more effectively. Who's to say the CIA won't use this training to push through more operations like the Iran-contra scam? Singer claims that this reasoning is a "redherring." But the salient issue in CIA training is that the CIA often pursues unsavory foreign policy initiatives, like the Iran-contra scam and the overthrow of Allende in Chile in 1973. The CIA is not just another government agency--it deserves extremely close scrutiny...
...officials in the State and Defense departments and the CIA vigorously supported him, citing his cooperation with U.S. intelligence agencies and willingness to let the U.S. military operate broadly in Panama. Even as the Administration finally took action, new charges suggested that Noriega played a role in the Iran-contra arms deal as well. Jose Blandon, until recently Panama's consul general in New York City and a close political adviser to Noriega, disclosed that the general had conspired with Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, the former National Security Council aide, to dispatch, then intercept, a shipment of East German arms...