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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...
...heart of the debate are the timetables for bringing about peace. The Guatemala plan, signed by the Presidents of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, calls for cease-fires in the region's civil wars, an end to outside aid for local insurgents, democratic reforms and free elections. The agreement gives the Central American governments 90 days from the date of its signing -- until Nov. 7 -- to work out the details. That is five weeks after the U.S.'s current $100 million aid package for the contras expires on Sept. 30. The Reagan-Wright proposal, on the other...
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...
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...