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...they trooped to the Capitol Building for closed-door sessions with House Speaker Jim Wright. First came Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, toting a proposal for cease-fire talks between his Sandinista government and the U.S.-backed contras. After Ortega left, Secretary of State George Shultz arrived, followed by the contra leaders. Finally, Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's ranking churchman, disappeared into Wright's office. An exasperated Reagan Administration, its policymaking efforts sidelined by the frenzy of congressional diplomacy, was forced like the rest of Washington to wait and see what might come of Wright's highly unusual...
...next day, Ortega emerged from a two-hour meeting with Obando, attended by Wright, and announced an eleven-point cease-fire proposal for Nicaragua. His plan calls for a monthlong cease-fire to take effect on Dec. 5. During the cease-fire, armed contras would be confined to one of three zones spread over a 4,200-sq.-mi. area. All military shipments to the rebels would halt during that period, but supplies of clothes, food and other nonlethal aid could be delivered by neutral international agencies. Under the proposal, any contras who lay down their arms will be granted...
...Ortega called his scheme a "proposal, not an ultimatum." Wright found the details patchy, but felt that they had "elements of good faith" for both sides. Publicly, the Reagan Administration was unwilling to rush to judgment. "We don't really know what's in this Ortega-Wright plan, and we just have to wait and see what they're talking about," said Fitzwater. Privately, officials denounced the scheme. "It sounds a lot like the Sandinistas' old unilateral cease-fire," said a naysayer at State. Although Contra Leader Adolfo Calero shot down Ortega's call for the rebels to disarm...
...Daniel Ortega Saavedra had one of the busiest weeks of his life last week. He spent the first few days in Moscow, attending the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Then, as Ortega was flying home, his wife Rosario Murillo gave birth to the couple's seventh child and first daughter. On Thursday night Ortega delivered what he described as the most difficult speech of his career, a 50-minute oration in which he offered to negotiate a cease-fire with the contras. The next day Ortega...
...crucial deadline is met as Nicaragua agrees to talk to the contras about a cease- fire. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra tells why in a Time interview. Meanwhile, in the region' s key trouble spots, Nicaragua and El Salvador, life remains hard. -- Gorbachev cautiously denounces Stalin' s crimes. -- Habib Bourguiba, ruler of Tunisia for three decades, is ousted...