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...JOS?? A. VELÁZQUEZ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LATINO MEMPHIS Memphis, Tenn...
Meanwhile, Salvadoran President Jos?? Napoleón Duarte has offered to conduct parallel negotiations with the leftists he is fighting, as part of a broader settlement whereby the Sandinistas would negotiate with the contras to end the civil war. The contra leaders have endorsed the Contadora and the Duarte initiatives, and Reagan reiterated his own support for both when appointing veteran Troubleshooter Philip Habib as his special envoy for Central America two weeks...
...headed east near the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border. About 60 miles inland, the plane veered northeast toward the Nicaraguan garrison town of San Carlos. According to Nicaraguan accounts, as the craft dropped down to 2,500 ft. and prepared to discharge its cargo, a 19-year-old Sandinista soldier, Jos?? Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet-made ground-to-air missile launcher and fired. The lumbering aircraft shuddered when the rocket found its target, then spiraled earthward, trailing smoke. While the soldiers cheered and slapped one an other on the back, a parachute popped open and a lone...
...seemed highly unlikely that the American adventurers could have obtained the help of El Salvador, the beneficiary this year of about $500 million in federal aid, without the knowledge and consent of U.S. officials. Salvadoran President Jos?? Napoleón Duarte formally denied that the plane had taken off from San Salvador. But it has long been an open secret that the Salvadoran air base at Ilopango is a major supply point for the contras...
...Salvador's President Jos?? Napoleón Duarte declared a state of emergency and issued an appeal for unity. "We'll come out of this, with the efforts and courage of all Salvadorans," Duarte said in a radio address. The magnitude of the disaster produced a rare show of solidarity in a nation torn by a seven-year civil war. In an extraordinary communiqué, the rebel guerrilla force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, declared a temporary cease-fire...