Word: directives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they want peace but in reality want war." The concessions coincided with the first deadline of the peace plan championed by President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica and signed last August by five Central American Presidents. While the Reagan Administration countered Ortega's offer with a call for direct talks, contra leaders hailed the announcement as a "triumph for the resistance." After listening to Ortega's speech on radio in Costa Rica, they urged that Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's ranking churchman, be tapped to mediate the talks. The next day, Ortega visited the Cardinal's office...
...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 with the counterrevolutionary leadership...
...Chinese face the same difficulties that the Soviets have encountered in revitalizing inefficient urban industries. Under the terms of a restructuring plan unveiled in October 1984, government and party officials must relinquish any direct role in running enterprises, making factory management responsible for profits and losses. A study of large and medium-size urban enterprises published in the Guangming Daily revealed that only 15% of the managers believed they had been successful in carrying out the reforms. An additional 65% claimed that some change had taken place but more innovations were needed, and 20% admitted that their operations lacked economic...
...foes of South Korea's military-backed government, last week was both the best and the worst of times. On the one hand, an overwhelming 93% of voters approved a new constitution that calls for direct elections and guarantees human rights. On the other hand, a formal split between Leading Dissidents Kim Dae Jung, 63, and Kim Young Sam, 59, dimmed prospects for an opposition victory next month, when South Korea holds its first democratic presidential election in 16 years. The rupture increased chances that Roh Tae Woo, the ruling party's candidate, would emerge the winner...
After President Chun Doo Hwan bowed to protesters in June and agreed to hold direct presidential elections, the two Kims promised to settle on a single candidate. But neither would yield to the other. Kim Young Sam entered the race last month. Last week was Kim Dae Jung's turn. Acknowledging that his candidacy "might unintentionally benefit antidemocratic forces," the elder Kim nonetheless declared that he will seek the post "to fulfill my responsibility to history...