Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until this week, Dukakis had said he would oppose the assignment of Massachusetts guardsmen to Central America. Dukakis argued that the assignment was part of the Reagan administration's overall policy of attempting to destabilize the Nicaraguan Sandinista government...
...more stunning when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra climaxed the heated session with what appeared to be a remarkable set of concessions. Ortega agreed to meet within days with leaders of the U.S.-backed contras and to open direct negotiations for a cease-fire in Nicaragua's civil war, now in its seventh year. Once the shooting stopped, Ortega said, his Marxist-oriented Sandinista government would release its political prisoners. He also promised to lift the six-year state of emergency that had allowed the Managua regime to impose its dictatorial rule. Those last-minute pledges saved the meeting...
...Sandinistas' methods and motives left ample room for skepticism. Even as the Presidents were talking peace in Costa Rica, Nicaraguan security agents in Managua arrested four prominent opposition leaders as suspects in an alleged CIA conspiracy. Opposition sources saw the move as a sign that hard- line Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez was unhappy with the concessions being made at the peace talks. And Ortega's aim was not purely altruistic. His main goal, apparently, was to ensure that the U.S. Congress turns down a Reagan Administration request next month for some $150 million in new contra aid. By agreeing...
...cardinal had no knowledge that the Sandinista commission would be here," said Adolfo Calero, a director of the rebel umbrella group known as the Nicaraguan Resistance at a news conference following a two-hour meeting with Obando y Bravo. "We do not know and the cardinal did not know how this confusion occurred...
...After trying for five months to have a meeting with Cardinal Obando, we had it today," Calero said "We agreed with him to have a face-to-face cease-fire meeting between the commission of the Sandinista government and the commission of the Nicaraguan Resistance on Jan. 28 in San Jose, Costa Rica...