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...including antiques and an art collection. Last April Ortega paid a token $2,500 to the former Sandinista government for the deed to the house, which is protected from prying eyes by a high wall decorated with festive murals. Other top Sandinistas also retired in style. Miguel D'Escoto, the rotund priest and ex-Foreign Minister, paid only $13,000 for one of the capital's plushest mansions...
Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto of Nicaragua said before the meeting that key Contra demands would be met if demobilization began by the end of November...
...They say they require three things; the three things are met by what we are offering," d'Escoto said, waving a copy of the Sandinista proposals...
During the next few days, however, the Sandinistas gave less cordial signals. First, they confiscated the coffee farms of three opposition members. Then, in Caracas, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann charged that unnamed U.S. officials were involved "down to the marrow of their bones" in drug trafficking...
While La Prensa and Radio Catolica were being silenced, Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann summoned U.S. Ambassador Richard Melton to his office. Melton, a career diplomat who arrived in Managua three months ago, listened as D'Escoto accused the U.S. embassy of fomenting unrest and then gave the Ambassador and seven other U.S. diplomats three days to leave the country...