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...course, progress in a peace negotiation must often be measured in shifts of tone. Thus what Arce did not say may be more important. He ruled out neither diplomatic talks nor a negotiated cease-fire. Moreover, a day earlier, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra obliquely suggested that he might be willing to meet with the rebels. His refusal thus far, Ortega told TIME, "is not a dogmatic position or a position of principle. It's simply a realistic position. If I were sure that by talking to the contras we could solve the problem of the war, we would have talked...
...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...
...Ortega disputed published reports, in the United States, quoting anonymous sources, that Miranda had been spying for the U.S. government for a long time before his defection...
...Instead, Ortega said Miranda was "reached by and fell in love with the CIA" in the United States when he accompanied Nicaragua's first lady, Rosario Murillo, to California on September 5 to visit a demonstrator injured while protesting U.S. aid to the anti-Sandinista rebels, called Contras...