Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right-wing lobbying group has tried to persuade the Justice Department to investigate the lawyer under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Though some friends remain surprised by Reichler's choice of a major client (he also represents the Philippines and Guatemala), they praise his legal ability. "He's a very bright, very articulate lawyer who is totally dedicated to the Sandinista cause," says Stuart Eizenstat, onetime legal colleague and former domestic policy adviser to Jimmy Carter...
...Arias peace plan signed in Guatemala by five Central American Presidents has made one certain contribution to the endless debate about contra aid: a new vocabulary. All sides must now make their case in the ritual language of the Guatemala accord. Opponents of contra aid say they are simply fulfilling the part that calls for an end to outside aid to insurgents. (Cutting off Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran insurgents is left to the appropriate Nicaraguan parliamentary committees.) The Administration, for its part, portrays contra aid as a mere "insurance policy" to save the peace plan in case the Sandinistas...
Neither side is impolite enough to note that the Guatemala accord has already expired. It was always more a hope than a plan. It had no enforcement mechanism. It has formally abolished its international verification commission. And three weeks ago it, in effect, abolished itself: the plan, said the communique of the five Central American Presidents gathered to assess its progress, had not been implemented, but no deadlines were extended. The U.S. Congress, with its vote this week on contra aid, has by default been designated to make the final judgment on Sandinista compliance...
...presidents of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, ElSalvador, Honduras and Guatemala launched a peaceeffort when they signed an accord last August 7.Those talks are scheduled to resume February...
...against that discouraging backdrop that the leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua met with Arias near the Costa Rican capital of San Jose last week to assess the progress of the peace plan. Originally expected to begin and end Friday, the meeting dragged into the next day as the leaders bargained and bickered over a round table. Arias' frustration surfaced Saturday after a morning swim before the session resumed. Said the dejected summit host: "I did everything I could. We all knew that if we failed to come to an agreement, the war would continue." Before...