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...Sandinistas and the contras sat down this week for their first face-to-face meeting at Sapoa, Nicaragua, they added another chapter to the book of American failures in Central America. Even if "neither side seeks a military victory over the other," as rebel negotiator Alfredo Cesar said after Monday's talk, the truth of the matter is that a diplomatic peace is also far from the minds of both sides...
...White House shouldn't throw War-Powers-Act stones in glass rotundas. They are equally--if not more--to blame as the Reagan Administration for our failure to pursue a coherent foreign policy in an area which was once so secure as to be called "America's backyard". Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama show the indecision and weakness that can erupt when the executive and legislative branches refuse to cooperate on foreign relations...
Flores and other officers, some of whom insisted on anonymity for security reasons, said the Sandinistas penetrated an area of about 20 square miles inside Olancho province last week while chasing the U.S.-supported rebels in a two-week offensive to evict the Contras from Nicaragua...
...Contras maintain camps in an area called Bocay, which includes territory on both sides of the border. Nicaragua claims the camps, which the Contras use to store supplies and to stage raids inside Nicaragua, are in Nicaraguan land but the rebels say they are in Honduras...
Defense Minister Humberto Ortega of Nicaragua said the Sandinistas would stop fighting during the talks, which are scheduled to last three days, and asked the Contras to do the same...