Word: nicaragua
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...idea that a concern for menus and hair styles can coexist comfortably with knowledge about the national debt and Nicaragua is a new one to many of the women who went to the convention, and the synthesis is as yet imperfect. At the Schlafly party, retired Lieut. General Daniel Graham's book on Star Wars defense systems, We Must Defend America, was a party favor, along with Texas-shaped cakes of soap. The main event of the afternoon was a fashion show in which the models included the wives of James Baker, Jack Kemp and Robert Michel. They were...
Publicly hostile, the U.S. and Nicaragua are privately talking...
...flew between Washington and Moscow, the Reagan Administration was making optimistic noises last week about another troublesome foreign relationship. The signals hinted encouragingly at progress in a two-month-old series of secretive bilateral talks aimed at easing the undeclared hostilities between the U.S. and the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Said a U.S. official familiar with the talks: "You can say we've taken the first step toward improving relations...
Sandinista leaders appeared to confirm that view. Following the latest round of discreetly private meetings between the two sides in the Mexican resort town of Manzanillo, Sergio Ramirez Mercado, a member of Nicaragua's governing junta and the Sandinista candidate for Vice President in national elections set for Nov. 4, declared, "For the first time, we're talking with the U.S. and not just listening...
...this fall. Washington fears that the field will be used for a shipment of Czechoslovak-made L-39 fighters that may be en route from Eastern Europe, or by a squadron of Soviet MiG-23s reportedly stationed in Cuba, but the Sandinistas deny it. All the U.S. and Nicaragua seem to agree on is that, at some 4,400 yds., Punta Huete will have the longest runway in Central America...