Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebel statement was issued shortly before the arrival in Islamabad of U.N. Under Secretary-General Diego Cordovez, who has mediated at the previous eleven rounds of Geneva talks between the Afghan and Pakistani governments. Yunis Khalis, chairman of the loosely knit alliance of seven mujahedin groups, refused to meet Cordovez. He accused the U.N. official of presiding over negotiations designed "to recognize the Kabul puppet government" and demanded that Moscow bargain directly with the rebels...
...moderate guerrilla faction, criticized Khalis for failing to clear his statement with other mujahedin leaders. Gailani told TIME he favored talking with Cordovez. That way, he said, "at least he will know what our position is and pass it on" to the Soviets. Gailani's rebuff of a fellow rebel may be part of the jockeying for position in a post-Soviet power structure...
Arias had not waited for the summit to chastise those whom he accused of hindering the peace plan. In a letter to three top contra leaders who fled Nicaragua several years ago and now reside in Costa Rica, the soft-spoken President demanded that they abandon their rebel activities or leave his country. The three, Alfonso Robelo, Alfredo Cesar and Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, sit on the six-member board that directs the contras' political affairs and produces a steady stream of anti-Sandinista propaganda. The next day Arias counterbalanced his anti-contra blast with a blunt four-page letter accusing...
...have an extra cause to celebrate during this year's May Day festivities? If a report in Pravda is to be believed, the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan could start coming home May 1. The Soviets still insist, however, that the U.S. first halt support for the mujahedin rebel groups -- something the Reagan Administration has refused to do until Moscow agrees on a definite timetable for its pullout. Said a skeptical U.S. official: "We're waiting for that crucial missing link, which is a Soviet decision on withdrawal...
...cardinal had no knowledge that the Sandinista commission would be here," said Adolfo Calero, a director of the rebel umbrella group known as the Nicaraguan Resistance at a news conference following a two-hour meeting with Obando y Bravo. "We do not know and the cardinal did not know how this confusion occurred...