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...problems come at time when Edison is struggling to refurbish the plant and gain permission to reopen it sometime this winter. The plant has been closed since April 1986, for a series of mechanical and managerial problems...
...Sandinistas' glad hand did not extend, however, to Radio Catolica, the religious station that was permitted to reopen last month after a 20-month hiatus. The government last week prohibited Radio Catolica from broadcasting news, saying it must first obtain requisite permits. The Sandinistas also suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...
...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...
...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...
Amid the rage, however, Tehran was still capable of making shrewd diplomatic maneuvers. In one such move that promised to heighten superpower tensions in the region, Iran and the Soviet Union last week began to negotiate plans to reopen oil pipelines and build a second rail link from Iran to Soviet Central Asia. While the Soviets and the U.S. are officially neutral in the Iran-Iraq war, the superpowers appeared to be moving into opposite corners: Washington seemed to tie itself to Baghdad by aiding its ally Kuwait, while Moscow warmed to Tehran...