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TIME'S editors met last year with Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista government, and also with his contra guerrilla opponent, Eden Pastora Gomez. The exchanges can be remarkably frank, as was the case with Nicaragua's Ortega. (In a gracious prelude to a hard-hitting conversation, he presented Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave with a painting by a Nicaraguan artist...
...continuing resolution inevitably became weighted down with irrelevant riders and enmeshed in heated controversy. Among the big stumbling blocks this year was the House vote to cut off U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, while the Senate insisted on continuing to fund the contras. Also the House voted to authorize pork-barrel water projects that eventually might cost $18 billion; the Senate, sensitive to a threat of presidential veto, refused...
...called Contadora group of countries (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama) appeared before the United Nations General Assembly to declare their confidence that a peace treaty for the region will be ready to be signed as of Oct. 15. Their U.N. appearance followed that of Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta, who told the delegates that the U.S. planned to launch an invasion of his country on the same date, an accusation that a State Department spokesman dismissed as "preposterous." Meanwhile, it appeared that a final breakdown may have occurred in negotiations between Nicaragua's Sandinista...
...will look even older and frailer when he has to answere for the first time in public, for three Lebanon bombings, his absurd nuclear posture toward the Soviet Union, his inability to assert American influence over anything larger than a golf course, and what amounts to terrorist activity in Nicaragua...
Despite the rancor, there is hope for negotiations that could bring about a postponement of Nicaragua's election. "Nothing is impossible," says one Coordinadora official, who points sout that the Sandinistas agreed recently to reverse a previous descision and extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for candidates to register for the election. But the Sandinistas' sudden public relations campaign of sweet reason seemed to some former admirers to lack conviction. At a two-day meeting of representatives from Central America, Contadora and the European Community in Costa Rica at week's end, one European diplomat remarked...