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...part, the diplomatic dance was prompted by Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda's zealous pursuit of a peace plan put forward in February by President José López Portillo. The plan calls for negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba, the U.S. and Nicaragua, and the government and rebels in El Salvador. By conducting a highly publicized shuttle among the parties involved, Castañeda hoped to convince Washington that it should appear as amenable to these talks as its adversaries claimed...
Serious negotiations between the U.S. and Nicaragua are far more likely. The central issues: Nicaragua's charges that the U.S. is threatening it with covert action and military invasion, and Washington's contention that the Sandinista regime is directing the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, traveled to New York City last week to make his government's case before an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. "Aggressive and destabilizing actions against Nicaragua by the U.S. Administration have been dramatically on the rise," Ortega insisted...
...hitherto forbidden word negotiation-although at week's end the State Department was discomfited by what it called Mexico's "premature" announcement of a U.S.-Nicaraguan parley in April. For that matter, there is no evidence yet that the postures of flexibility struck by Cuba and Nicaragua last week represented any real change of policy on their parts. It is plainly in each country's interest to appear accommodating. The real question is not whether the assorted adversaries want to talk but what they seriously want to talk about...
...hoped would shore up the authority of centrist President José Napoleón Duarte and help him put down the violence of both right-wing extremists and leftist guerrillas. At the same time, the Reagan Administration had been feeling out the possibility of future negotiations involving Nicaragua and Cuba to reduce tensions in the region and end the bloodshed in El Salvador...
Twice of late the State Department has been embarrassed by its own for-example pleading. Secretary of State Al Haig waved a photo spread from the French Figaro of the "most atrocious genocidal actions" in Nicaragua, which proved to be an old picture of something else. State then proudly produced a live Nicaraguan guerrilla captured in El Salvador who proved to be a slick young Marxist recanting all he had been expected to say. Still, the difficulty the Administration has in making, or selling, its case was evidenced in an ambitious prime-time CBS News report on Central America...