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...JOSE, Costa Rica--Contra leaders met yesterday with peace mediator Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo and then announced that they will open direct cease-fire talks with Nicaragua's Sandinista government...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan declared today the United States must give Nicaragua's Contra rebels "what they need to survive" and said prospects for peace in Centra America depend on keeping pressure on the leftist Sandinista government...
...House should vote to extend Contra aid and the Senate should follow suit the next day, Hamilton said, "the effect would be a continuation of the war and an escalation of the war, with results we could neither predict nor control. It would also mean the...peace process would come to a halt...
Hamilton said he would work to persuade colleagues that by voting against Contra aid, lawmakers would be casting their lot with a political process that could bring an end to the region's long conflicts...
...more potent, though, is the controversy over Bush's Iran-contra role. It provides a rare window on how the Vice President performs when he is close to the Oval Office. Before the debate, a few Bush strategists were arguing with little success that the Vice President should offer a public apology. The , failure of any Republican to press the issue during the Friday night debate renewed hopes that he might ride out the storm. But if Bush is the nominee, it is an issue the Democrats are sure to revive in the fall...