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Despite his confident tone, Reagan will find it difficult to deliver on his word. So long as Central Americans continue trying to find compromise solutions to the region's guerrilla wars, his chances of persuading Capitol Hill to vote more arms for the contras are virtually zero. Said House Speaker Jim Wright: "I really don't believe there is any disposition in Congress to pass military money at the time when we are negotiating for peace...
...search for peace continued last week. In El Salvador, President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with representatives of Marxist-led guerrillas; they failed to sign a cease-fire but agreed to keep talking. More surprising, negotiators for the Guatemalan government and leftist rebels conferred in Madrid. They issued a terse statement claiming, "Both sides consider that the climate of the talks was satisfactory." That was the first hint that either side might be willing to settle a brutal guerrilla war that has claimed 30,000 lives in the past 16 years...
This minor military victory notwithstanding, America's Gulf force has not established its fitness to escort the 11 re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers through the waterway. The cruisers and aircraft carriers Washington has sent were designed for a major war with the Soviets not for guerrilla encounters with Revolutionary Guards in speedboats. The billion-dollar, 500-yard-long ships are fat targets in the narrow Gulf, where WWI-vintage mines have taken a disturbing toll...
...Prensa might be allowed to publish soon. Managua and Washington, however, exchanged sharp words after U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett encountered anti-U.S. protesters while on a visit to the Nicaraguan capital. In El Salvador a meeting between President Jose Napoleon Duarte and the country's leftist guerrillas failed to occur, aborted by Duarte's demand that the rebels first lay down their arms. Yet all hope was not lost. Leaders of the guerrilla coalition met with Arias for the second time in two weeks. "We've made progress toward a dialogue," said Guillermo Ungo, one of the rebels...
...contrast, the Sandinistas, who waged an 18-year guerrilla war before marching triumphantly into Managua in 1979, are masters of tenacity. Seeing Reagan on the ropes, they have mounted a public relations campaign designed to convey goodwill. To demonstrate their commitment to the "democratization process" called for by the peace accord, Sandinista leaders have eased censorship rules and hinted that the leading opposition newspaper, La Prensa, may reopen before the Nov. 7 cease-fire. When Senator Dole passed through Managua two weeks ago, Ortega hotly debated with him in public for an hour. Moreover, a letter that Dole had written...