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Among its features: both countries will now let their own citizens be extradited. Previously, Italy and the U.S. generally refused to send their nationals to be tried abroad. The pact also allows both governments to freeze any assets held by suspected fugitives...
Instead of blocking talks between East and West Germany [WORLD, Sept. 17], the Soviets should realize that Germany is the flash point between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries. Were Germany reunified as a neutral country and barred, like Japan, from building offensive forces, it would join Sweden, Austria and Yugoslavia as a buffer between the two groups. Both superpowers could then reduce their missiles and occupying armies...
Such incidents have convinced senior officials in Washington that the Sandinistas are not sincere in their acceptance of the draft Contadora accord. The proposed pact calls for, among other things, the adoption of "appropriate measures leading to ... participation of political parties in electoral processes," including freedom of assembly and speech, as well as equal access to the media. It also requires "electoral calendars that assure parties of participation under equal conditions." The Sandinistas concede that their maneuver was aimed at putting the U.S. on the diplomatic defensive. Sandinista Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra declared last week that "the United States...
...vote in order to appease international opinion. This, he said, was reversed when Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and Planning Minister Henry Ruiz Hernandez returned from Eastern Europe two weeks ago. The moderates agreed not to delay the vote in return for the acceptance of the proposed Contadora pact. Their capitulation has angered the opposition, known as the Coordinadora, a coalition of political parties, businessmen and labor unions that has chosen Cruz to head its ticket. Cruz has refused to sign up officially for the race because of the date of the election...
...airlines into an unprecedented agreement to spread out 1,300 rush-hour flights at the six most crowded U.S. airports. These are Chicago-O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartsfield, Denver's Stapleton and the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark. The pact will not take effect until Nov. 1, but it has already come under heavy fire. Critics both in and out of the airline industry charge that the accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse Air, a Dallas-based discount carrier: "If you take away...