Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communique from Havana last week sounded downright chummy. "Fidel expressed to Daniel the readiness of Cuba to cooperate with Nicaragua as far as possible to make the policy a success," read the statement. Fidel, of course, was the bearded one. And Daniel was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. The topic of conversation: a peace plan for Central America that Ortega had signed in Guatemala City the previous week...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--President Reagan has invited the leadership of Nicaragua's Contra rebels to Los Angeles to give "his personal assurances" of commitment to their cause, the White House said yesterday...
...would say that they're going there to discuss the status of the peace plans," Fitzwater said of the Contra directors. He was referring to the Reagan-Wright plan and to a rival plan, signed by the leaders of five Central American nations including Nicaragua, which envisions a Nov. 7 deadline for the kind of change that could lead to a cessation of hostilities in Nicaragua...
...plan calls for the Sandinistas and the contras to agree on an immediate cease-fire. The U.S. would then suspend all military aid to the rebels ("humanitarian" help would continue), and Nicaragua would end its imports of military supplies from the Soviet Union. Nicaragua would be obliged to lift its state of emergency, restore basic civil rights, and establish an independent electoral commission that would plan for open elections. In addition, all foreign military personnel would be withdrawn from Central America and U.S. maneuvers in Honduras suspended...
With the rate of infection rising rapidly among black and Hispanic intravenous drug users, AIDS may become a predominantly minority disease. -- Reagan and Central American leaders present rival peace plans for Nicaragua. -- Jesse Jackson, once the angry outsider, is courting white voters with a new moderate image. -- L. A.' s rash of highway homicides continues...