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...does not become more accommodating to the Soviets. Both Haig and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym have complained that the U.S.S.R. has been "fishing in troubled waters" with its propaganda attempts to capitalize on the crisis. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, speaking at a Moscow dinner honoring Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra, said that the South Atlantic confrontation occurred "precisely because there are forces that are trying to preserve or restore their positions of dominance and to impose foreign oppression." In deference to his Marxist guest, Brezhnev did not embrace the junta's cause more explicitly...
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...
...Ortega also restated the desire of El Salvador's left-wing guerrillas for a negotiated settlement. The U.S. has consistently opposed negotiations that would require the government to give up at the bargaining table what the insurgents have not been able to win on the battlefield or at the polls. Indeed, "negotiated settlement" has become something of a loaded code phrase to describe the approach embraced by the French, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, that would force the Salvadoran government to share power with leftists. But one staunch supporter of Salvadoran President José Napole...
...week's end, Nicaragua called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council so that Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra could personally discuss what a Sandinista spokesman called the "ever increasing danger of a large-scale military intervention" by the U.S. It was not clear whether the Nicaraguans could muster the nine Security Council votes required to convene a session. Would Ortega engage in negotiations while in the U.S.? Said a Nicaraguan official: "We are well disposed to carry out any talks." But State Department officials were not inclined to go along. Said one: "The U.S. regards Nicaragua...
Lopez Portillo's last suggestion drew a stony silence from members of Nicaragua's Sandinista directorate, who sat next to him on the speaker's platform. Directorate Member Daniel Ortega Saavedra offered Nicaragua's five-point plan for better relations with the U.S. and its Central American neighbors, including regional nonaggression pacts, joint patrols by the Hondurans and Nicaraguans of their border, and a commitment to free elections and political pluralism in Nicaragua. Washington responded politely but noncommittally to the proposals of Lopez Portillo, who later called the economic aspects of Reagan's Caribbean plan...