Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly, the Sandinistas were on the offensive, lobbing peace grenades in the general direction of Washington. A Nicaraguan government delegation showed up in Costa Rica a full week ahead of schedule for face-to-face talks with the U.S.-backed contras. When the rebel leaders dismissed the offer as a publicity stunt and refused to begin talks prematurely, the Sandinistas hurled another surprise. They called for an international commission to monitor Nicaragua's compliance with a Central American peace plan. The panel would include not only representatives from the Organization of American States, Socialist International and the United Nations...
...term, when his influence will be minimal. "If Congress votes down aid this time," Reagan warned last week, "the decision may well be irrevocable." If the vote is yes, it may kill the Central American peace plan that has won a Nobel Prize for Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez but that is quickly running out of deadlines. Says Republican Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois: "It's going to be a very emotional, very bloody debate...
Arias had not waited for the summit to chastise those whom he accused of hindering the peace plan. In a letter to three top contra leaders who fled Nicaragua several years ago and now reside in Costa Rica, the soft-spoken President demanded that they abandon their rebel activities or leave his country. The three, Alfonso Robelo, Alfredo Cesar and Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, sit on the six-member board that directs the contras' political affairs and produces a steady stream of anti-Sandinista propaganda. The next day Arias counterbalanced his anti-contra blast with a blunt four-page letter accusing...
...Reagan Administration kept a close eye on the Costa Rica summit. In a whirlwind tour of Central America two weeks ago, Lieut. General Colin Powell, Reagan's National Security Adviser, irritated Nicaragua's neighbors by suggesting that they might suffer U.S. aid cutbacks if they abandoned the contras. Powell also urged them to condemn the Sandinistas' intransigence as a major obstacle to peace. The Administration's critics saw the mission as part of an overall plan to topple the Sandinistas by using the contras to wage a proxy war. The outcome of last week's summit, however, seemed...
Rock- throwing mobs continue their frenzied attacks as bewildered security forces wonder what to do next. In the most inflammatory incident yet, police attack demonstrators on the sacred grounds of Jerusalem' s Temple Mount. -- Five Central American leaders meet in Costa Rica and give peace another chance. -- A dynasty ends with the death of Taiwan' s President Chiang Ching...