Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, Mrs. Reagan forged ahead with a full schedule over the past two weeks, including a state dinner for Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte. When the White House announced on Friday that the First Lady would be entering Bethesda for a biopsy, she was in New Hampshire, urging a conference of foster grandparents to get involved in the fight against teenage drug abuse. The First Lady declined to make any comment on her pending test. Said Conference Participant Shireen Tilly, executive director of the Friends Program: "She put on a brave front and a warm, gracious...
...mediated by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Primate. "There's a new mood in Central America now," Arias told TIME. "I hope President Ortega will revise his position and accept dialogue." Two other signatories to the peace plan, El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Honduras' President Jose Azcona Hoyo, echoed Arias' appeal...
...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...
...known all along about the diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the contras. "Casey nodded a frail yes." When asked why, Casey said, "I believed." Woodward says the CIA at one time used the late Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as informants. The CIA's reaction: "No comment...
...drop hints that the opposition daily La 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...