Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What once seemed impossible is now just a week away. Come Nov. 5, hostilities are supposed to cease throughout Central America under a peace plan signed by five of the region's Presidents last August in Guatemala. As the date approaches, every little event is being analyzed, every statement weighed and debated...
...suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...
...Norwegian Nobel Committee to award Arias the world's most prestigious peace prize was more than a personal triumph for the 46-year-old President. It was also a powerful vote of confidence for the regional peace plan authored by Arias that was signed two months ago in Guatemala City by five Central American Presidents. The prize both enhances the credibility of the fragile peace process and augments Arias' moral authority as an arbiter of peace to wrest new concessions from the various parties to the plan. At the same time, it further impedes the Reagan Administration's attempts...
...Reagan Administration, which last month decried the Guatemala plan as fatally flawed, responded coolly to the news. Asked to comment on the Nobel Committee's choice, President Reagan said simply, "I congratulate him." Hours later the White House released a statement that could be read as a warning of the Administration's intention to push forward with its campaign to keep the contras armed and in the field. "This award," it said, "should inspire all of us to renew our efforts to ensure that enduring peace and democracy eventually come to the region." The Administration has consistently maintained that only...
...peace process set in motion by the Guatemala accord has already yielded some results in Nicaragua. In a succession of gestures that the Reagan Administration has called "cosmetic," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra invited three exiled priests to return home, granted pardons to 16 imprisoned foreigners, reopened the opposition daily La Prensa, lifted the ban on Radio Catolica and proclaimed unilateral cease-fires in four remote war zones. The Sandinistas contend that these moves demonstrate their commitment to the plan and to the region-wide cease-fire scheduled to begin Nov. 5. The White House counters that no peace can endure...