Word: maga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign of its commitment to those goals, the Administration last week sent off Special Envoy Richard Stone on a twelve-day, ten-nation "listening" tour of Central America. On his first stop, in El Salvador, Stone met with Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, and the country's archbishop, Arturo Rivera y Damas. Stone will also visit Nicaragua; it will be the first high-level U.S. visit to the revolutionary Sandinista government since Enders met with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra there in 1981. Among other things, the Stone visit is intended...
...Washington's latest diplomatic ploy go precisely as planned. A few weeks ago, State Department officials decided to try to persuade the government of Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña to advance the elections scheduled for March 1984. They hoped that the announcement would enhance their case for continued military aid, while blunting any call by the Pope for a negotiated settlement. Richard Stone, a former Democratic Senator from Florida who was appointed special ambassador for "public diplomacy" earlier this year, handled the task. Accompanied by two National Security Council staffers, Stone flew to San Salvador two weeks...
...complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole lot worse." By some accounts, Garcia may be ousted relatively soon by El Salvador's Provisional President, Alvaro Alfredo Magaña. Among other changes that may be necessary are a further increase in U.S. military aid and a boost in the number of U.S. military advisers in the country from the current 40 or so. Insists U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton: "The Salvadoran army today, compared to what...
Shortly after dawn Wednesday, Ochoa came to terms with Garcia through the mediation efforts of provisional President Alvaro Magaña and senior army officers who supported Ochoa's protest but not his tactics. In the compromise, Ochoa's reassignment to Uruguay was withdrawn. He was also promised he would not be arrested or court-martialed. Ironically, Ochoa's insubordination may earn him a prestigious assignment at the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington...
...regional war. But in the view of many U.S. analysts, the rebels are beginning to sound more conciliatory because they know that the Salvadoran government, under U.S. pressure, is inching toward a proposal of its own for political reconciliation. The initial step would be for Provisional President Alvaro Magaña to name a peace commission that would be instructed to look for a way to include leftists in the presidential and municipal elections scheduled to take place by the end of March 1984. The main condition: that the guerrillas wishing to re-enter the political process lay down their...