Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more stunning when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra climaxed the heated session with what appeared to be a remarkable set of concessions. Ortega agreed to meet within days with leaders of the U.S.-backed contras and to open direct negotiations for a cease-fire in Nicaragua's civil war, now in its seventh year. Once the shooting stopped, Ortega said, his Marxist-oriented Sandinista government would release its political prisoners. He also promised to lift the six-year state of emergency that had allowed the Managua regime to impose its dictatorial rule. Those last-minute pledges saved the meeting...
...peace talks. And Ortega's aim was not purely altruistic. His main goal, apparently, was to ensure that the U.S. Congress turns down a Reagan Administration request next month for some $150 million in new contra aid. By agreeing to take the very steps sought by Washington and Nicaragua's neighbors, Ortega sought to show that there was no further need for more contra funds. After the meeting, Ortega declared that Congress no longer had any reason to vote aid to the rebels, "not one dollar more, not one cent more...
...JOSE, Costa Rica--Contra leaders met yesterday with peace mediator Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo and then announced that they will open direct cease-fire talks with Nicaragua's Sandinista government...
...Sandinistas] are simply playing games around a serious subject--the gaining of peace in Nicaragua," said Alfredo Cesar, another Resistance director...
...same time, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) said the administration has decided to sit out the peace process because it is at odds with the president's goal of eliminating the Sandinista regime from Nicaragua...