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Arias was more measured in his assessment, though not more enthusiastic. "It is a positive gesture," he said. "But the only way to obtain a durable peace is a negotiated cease-fire." Toward that end, Arias has proposed that Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, one of the Sandinistas' most respected critics and chairman of the Reconciliation Commission, serve as a mediator between the two sides. The contras have embraced the idea and called for talks to begin Oct. 4, but the Sandinistas have not responded. That date, incidentally, may also be important in El Salvador. Both the government...
...Sandinistas may yet make a mess of things, a talent for which they have demonstrated a remarkable flair. Just four days after a 1985 congressional vote against aid to the contras, for example, Ortega visited Moscow. His trip was deftly exploited by aid proponents two months later to obtain $27 million in humanitarian funds. Ortega seemed poised on the verge of self-destruction again last week as he coolly announced that on Nov. 7, the day the cease-fire is scheduled to begin, he will be in Moscow celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Russian Revolution...
...much as had been hoped, GM turned to more direct cost cutting and indefinitely laid off 50,000 hourly workers. The 335,000 union members who remain at GM are convinced that the austerity process is not finished, and that a job-security contract may thus be impossible to obtain. If so, the U.A.W. may be hitting the bricks...
...debt debacle could hardly come at a worse time for Pyongyang. Reports filtering back from visiting academics and investment experts depict a country mired in an economic morass. Although precise numbers are hard to obtain, the per capita gross national product for the nation's 20 million people is believed to be $900, far less than South Korea's $2,274. The North's GNP rose last year by 1% to 4%, to about $20 billion, compared with a 12.5% increase, to about $95 billion, in the South. While South Korea pumps out Hyundai * automobiles and Daewoo computer equipment, some...
...late 1981 or early 1982 worked out a deal, which later fell through, to obtain a top-of-the-line T-72 Soviet battle tank from Iraq, a Soviet client, in return for American self-propelled artillery weapons for the Iraqi army...