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Such incidents have convinced senior officials in Washington that the Sandinistas are not sincere in their acceptance of the draft Contadora accord. The proposed pact calls for, among other things, the adoption of "appropriate measures leading to ... participation of political parties in electoral processes," including freedom of assembly and speech, as well as equal access to the media. It also requires "electoral calendars that assure parties of participation under equal conditions." The Sandinistas concede that their maneuver was aimed at putting the U.S. on the diplomatic defensive. Sandinista Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra declared last week that "the United States...
...diplomatic initiative from Washington. To some it even appeared that the U.S. was on the defensive in its war of guns and acrimony with the Marxist-led regime in Managua. Catching Washington offbalance, the Sandinistas last week announced their willingness to accept, "in its totality and without modification," the draft of a regional nonaggression treaty sponsored by Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela. Collectively known as the Contadora group, those countries have been trying since July 1983 to bring peace and democracy to Central America...
Washington reacted by accusing the Sandinistas of attempting a devious propaganda ploy. The draft treaty is "full of loopholes," declared a senior U.S. diplomat. Other officials claimed that the Sandinistas were using an incomplete document-which is, for example, unfinished on the subject of the verification of arms inventories-to convince increasingly skeptical friends and neighbors of their democratic and peaceful intentions. The U.S. reaction produced exasperation in Managua. Said a senior official of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry: "It sometimes seems as if, short of committing collective suicide, there is nothing Nicaragua can do to please the United States...
...Sandinista junta. "They are very, very tricky," said Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Associate Robert Leiken, who recently wrote a scathing indictment of the Sandinista regime for the New Republic. Scheduling the vote for Nov. 4, he said, 'means that none of this [the "ontadora draft treaty] would apply to their elections...