Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain Midlife would like to speak with Gorbachev this week. Not about the missiles or Nicaragua -- about middle-agedness. "Mikhail Sergeyevich, don't you feel like throwing in the towel sometimes?" Captain Midlife was watching when Tom Brokaw, another middle-ager, asked, "man to man," what do you think and feel? But Gorbachev could only answer state to man, and the more certain he sounded, the less certain he looked. In middle age the gulf between what you are and who you are is too wide to cross, too -- what? -- extreme. Who knows what turmoil lurks in the hearts...
...White House appears reluctant to get directly involved in Haiti. While the Reagan Administration continues to seek aid for the contra rebels in Nicaragua in the name of restoring democracy, it does not want to intervene militarily in Haiti for a similar purpose. After suspending U.S. economic aid last week, senior Administration officials said direct military action would be premature and would be opposed by neighboring countries...
...cease-fire is desired, the United States must cease the fire because they are the ones who are making war on Nicaragua," Ortega said Saturday. On Monday, he added, "We had a bad experience with a truce...
...indirect talks Obando y Bravo held deadlocked when the Contras demanded they center on political reforms in Nicaragua and the Sandinistas insisted they be limited to technical negotiations about a ceasefire...
...regional peace plan, which the presidents of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Honduras signed in August is aimed at ending the war in Nicaragua, and leftist guerrilla wars in El Salvador and Guatemala...