Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported much of this week's main story, wrote the one-page description of life in war-weary El Salvador and conducted interviews with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, author of the peace plan and winner last month of the Nobel Peace Prize, and with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Said Moody: "Getting in to see the top people makes a major difference in a reporter's ability to understand a complicated story and to convey that understanding to readers...
...Ortega was not alone in his attempt to wriggle free of rigid positions that could prove too constrictive in the weeks ahead. All five Central American Presidents who signed the peace plan in Guatemala City three months ago are now downplaying the Nov. 5 cease-fire deadline, and have begun referring to the date as the beginning of a peace process rather than a cutoff for achieving the accord's goals. "We never expected that peace and democracy would descend from heaven on Nov. 5," insists a Costa Rican official. In Washington, where congressional opposition promises to doom the White...
...political prisoners, but its contours remained vague. The Sandinistas have resisted a large-scale release of prisoners almost as vigorously as they have denounced contra talks. Last week they hinted that many of Nicaragua's estimated 4,500 political prisoners might be set free on or around Nov. 5. Ortega warned last month, however, that no one guilty of "atrocities" would be freed. At the time, he said the amnesty could apply to ex-guardsmen who were not guilty of "major crimes." Some 2,500 Sandinista supporters last week staged a rally to protest the release of any ex-guardsmen...
...request was refused, but that may soon change. "On Nov. 5, or maybe a few days before," predicts a State Department official, "the Sandinistas will announce they will meet with the contras." Indeed, Managua is filled with rumors that some sort of compromise will be announced after Ortega returns from Moscow...
...Ortega y Gasset wrote, "Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or something to take command." The world was not exactly howling last week, just casting its gaze around anxiously...