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Central America last week pursued peace with guns blazing and negotiators vacillating. In El Salvador, a brutal political slaying provoked the leftist guerrillas to cancel talks with the government. In Costa Rica, Nicaraguan Indian rebels charged that the Sandinistas had backed out of scheduled talks. And in Nicaragua, the Sandinistas reaffirmed their public line against negotiating an overall settlement with the U.S.-backed contra rebels, even as a regional peace plan is supposed to go into effect this week. Warned Comandante Bayardo Arce: "There will never, at any time or in any place, be any direct or indirect political dialogue...
...downplaying the Nov. 5 cease-fire deadline, and have begun referring to the date as the beginning of a peace process rather than a cutoff for achieving the accord's goals. "We never expected that peace and democracy would descend from heaven on Nov. 5," insists a Costa Rican official. In Washington, where congressional opposition promises to doom the White House request for $270 million in fresh contra aid, the Reagan Administration is now talking of delaying its pitch until January...
...extend, however, to Radio Catolica, the religious station that was permitted to reopen last month after a 20-month hiatus. The government last week prohibited Radio Catolica from broadcasting news, saying it must first obtain requisite permits. The Sandinistas also suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...
...Peace Prize winner, President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, it was a week of stirred political passions and fresh opportunity. Meanwhile, the scientists named by the Nobel Committee to receive the 1987 prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine basked in the traditional praise of colleagues around the globe...
...separate gulf attacks, Iranian missiles hit U. S.- owned and U. S.- registered ships. -- Costa Rica' s Arias wins the Nobel Prize for Peace...