Word: daniell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, meanwhile, pressed Nicaragua's case abroad. After a quick stop in Cuba, Ortega continued on to Europe. In Madrid, he invited Spain to join his recently proposed international commission to monitor Nicaragua's compliance with the peace plan. Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez accepted, provided that other Central American leaders approved Spain's participation. Ortega then flew to Rome, where he had a 30-minute private audience with Pope John Paul II. It was the first meeting between the two men since the Pontiff's tense visit to Nicaragua in 1983, and the welcome was decidedly chilly...
...Managua's policies. "A good lawyer," he argues, "represents clients, not causes." True, but Reichler now has a paternal interest as well in the Nicaraguans. In 1984 he and his wife adopted a Nicaraguan baby. Her name is Jessica Danielle, in honor of Reichler's good friend, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra...
...Tomas (Daniel Day Lewis) has an urgent demand, repeated to every woman he meets: "Take off your clothes." A handsome Prague surgeon, he is also an epic womanizer -- a kind of Columbus or Cousteau, eager to chart the provocative depths of womankind. "Is every woman a new land, whose secrets you want to discover?" The questioner is Sabina (Lena Olin), a painter and Tomas' frequent mistress whose principal props are her mirror and her quaint black bowler. The mirror is Sabina's canvas, her lover, her critic; the hat is an emblem of her willingness to walk...
Promotion Director: Daniel B. Brewster...
Indeed, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega suggested this last month when he said that the Sandinistas would never cede their political hegemony. As Robert Leiken, currently a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs has written, Ortega's "strategy is clear... he will delay lifting the state of emergency and granting broad amnesty and the other democratic reforms stipulated in the Guatemalan accords until the contras have been disbanded and defunded." Others have echoed Leiken's fears that the Sandinistas are cynically using the peace process to squash internal resistance to their regime...