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...closing of La Prensa last year was seen as a Sandinista rebuke to the U.S. after Congress approved $100 million in contra aid; similarly, the paper's sudden rebirth seemed to be directed at the White House. But Publisher Chamorro made it clear that she would reopen the paper on her terms, not the Sandinistas'. She said she recently received an unexpected visit from Ortega. His message: La Prensa could resume publication. Her response: "I'll never go to that censorship office again." Ortega agreed. A subsequent visit by Agrarian Reform Minister Jaime Wheelock Roman, however, indicated that the Sandinistas...
...Sandinistas said last week they might declare a unilateral cease-fire in the contra war and continued to drop hints that the opposition daily La Prensa might be allowed to publish soon. Managua and Washington, however, exchanged sharp words after U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett encountered anti-U.S. protesters while on a visit to the Nicaraguan capital. In El Salvador a meeting between President Jose Napoleon Duarte and the country's leftist guerrillas failed to occur, aborted by Duarte's demand that the rebels first lay down their arms. Yet all hope was not lost. Leaders of the guerrilla...
...masters of tenacity. Seeing Reagan on the ropes, they have mounted a public relations campaign designed to convey goodwill. To demonstrate their commitment to the "democratization process" called for by the peace accord, Sandinista leaders have eased censorship rules and hinted that the leading opposition newspaper, La Prensa, may reopen before the Nov. 7 cease-fire. When Senator Dole passed through Managua two weeks ago, Ortega hotly debated with him in public for an hour. Moreover, a letter that Dole had written demanding the release of two jailed opposition leaders was published in the Sandinista press. Last week...
Arias is already pushing Ortega in that direction. He publicly called on the Nicaraguan leader to lift the five-year-old state of emergency and restore civil liberties by the Nov. 7 deadline. But Ortega made no promises, saying the reopening of the opposition newspaper La Prensa, which was closed by the government more than a year ago, and the Roman Catholic radio station Radio Catolico, is "an option of ours...
...general has made it clear that he is girding for a prolonged battle. In anticipation of the general strike, which for two days closed 90% of all businesses in Panama City, the government imposed a news blackout. Troops seized the offices of the leading opposition newspaper, La Prensa, and shut down two other papers as well. On Friday, Noriega's backers staged a rally of 50,000, many of them government workers, in the capital...