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...Ortega signed a Central American peace plan proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. Among other things, the plan required each of the five participating countries to show that it had a free press. Ortega dispatched an emissary to tell Chamorro that La Prensa, then still banned, could reopen -- subject to government censorship. "I told him I wasn't interested," says Dona Violeta. "He became very nervous and explained to me that if La Prensa remained closed, Nicaragua would be accused of failing to meet the conditions in the peace plan. And I told him, 'There's a simple...
...after U.S. diplomats had worked out the arrangement, National Marine Fisheries Service officials declared it to be insufficiently stringent and called for revisions. Last week Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher told the State Department that the pact was unacceptable and would have to be renegotiated. Japan, however, is unwilling to reopen the negotiations. Japanese fishing officials point out that U.S. salmon fishermen use the same kind of drift nets that Asians do. The American versions, however, are many times smaller...
...greater Israel," Baker urged. Security interests could be satisfied, he said, by a settlement based on U.N. Resolution 242, which requires secure and recognized borders for Israel. For a change, Baker presented Israel with a U.S. wish ^ list: "Forswear annexation. Stop settlement activity. Allow ((Palestinian)) schools to reopen. Reach out to the Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights...
Other Noriega confidants speculated that the general might be willing to step down -- provided Washington drops its drug indictments against him. That is a condition that Reagan accepted a year ago but that Bush has rejected. Noriega may attempt to reopen negotiations with the U.S. on that matter, if only to buy time. Unless a solution can be found quickly, Bush, like Reagan, could find himself sinking ever deeper into a frustrating brawl with a dictator whom few care for but no one knows...
...joined by Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, who says he wanted to ensure that "this aviation technology, which has taken so many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch right up." After hearing the objections, Bush decided to reopen the agreement and press Japan for safeguards, including a clearer understanding of what the U.S. would gain from the project and the technological secrets it could withhold from the Japanese...