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...would be willing to give up the fight. But much like the Reagan- Wright peace plan, their proposal seems designed to force a refusal from the Sandinistas. "The big attraction of the Guatemala plan for the Sandinistas was that it left the contras high and dry," says a Western diplomat in Honduras. The contras hope that a Nicaraguan refusal will persuade the Honduran government to take a tougher stand on the accord...
...told visiting Congressman Kemp that he thought the peace accord did not preclude continued U.S. aid to the contras. "Hondurans would really like a regional peace agreement, but they also want to maintain good relations with the U.S., and right now the two seem mutually exclusive," says a Western diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "So they are hanging on to the U.S. trapeze, too frightened to let go and try to catch the Central American trapeze...
Surprisingly, the announcement stirred little notice in Washington. A Western diplomat in Nicaragua speculated that the Soviets had insisted on high-level representation at the anniversary festivities. "It wasn't an invitation, it was a summons," he said. Envoys elsewhere in the region observed that Ortega's announcement followed a Soviet decision to supply Nicaragua with an additional 100,000 tons of badly needed oil this year, and questioned whether recent strains between Moscow and Managua had been anything more than a propaganda ploy...
...Americans, have now gone underground. But in the face of those advances, the man in the Havana street is still unable to speak or travel as he pleases. Money is more than ever in desperately short supply. "Cuba is suffering an economic crisis of massive proportions," says a foreign diplomat. "Here is a country with no free press, no opposition parties, no capital flight, a controlled economy and $4.6 billion from the Soviets each year -- and they're still, in hard-currency terms, almost bankrupt...
...that five Central American nations, including Nicaragua, signed in Guatemala City in early August. U.S. officials admitted that their goal was to slow progress on the peace plan, which, as far as the Reagan Administration is concerned, should never have been adopted in the first place. Said a U.S. diplomat: "It's like trying to put the brakes on a runaway train heading downhill...