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...true that Ronald Reagan and Daniel Ortega Saavedra have nothing in common. Both hold passionate beliefs. They just happen to believe exactly opposite things, as two emotional speeches demonstrated anew last week. "I make a solemn vow," Reagan promised at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington. "As long as there is breath in this body, I will speak and work, strive and struggle for the cause of the Nicaraguan freedom fighters." Specifically, Reagan pledged, he will fight for $270 million in renewed military and humanitarian aid to the contras to enable them to continue battling the Sandinista...
...cavalcade proceeded in fits and starts. Contra leaders gathered in Guatemala City to examine their own future. In an unexpected gesture of goodwill, they released 80 Sandinista prisoners of war at an airfield in Costa Rica, 30 miles from the Nicaraguan border. Several days earlier, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra pardoned 16 Central Americans, none of them Nicaraguans, who had been imprisoned for rebel activity...
...itinerary of foreign policy hot spots: Moscow, Manila and Managua. Lately the congressional congestion in Managua and vicinity has become particularly acute. No sooner had Robert Dole and four other Republican Senators checked out of the Nicaraguan capital last week, after some verbal sparring with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, than Democratic Senator Tom Harkin checked in for a high-level chat. Meanwhile, Representative Jack Kemp and a delegation of 65 conservatives were traveling through Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica...
...diplomatic maneuvers looked a bit flat-footed, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra seemed to execute several deft pirouettes. He announced that three exiled priests could return to Nicaragua and hinted that the Roman Catholic Church's radio station might be reopened within 90 days. Some Central American officials speculated that Ortega was merely trying to embarrass the Reagan Administration; others argued that with Nicaragua's economy a shambles, Ortega was genuinely bent on procuring peace. Whatever the case, on the public relations front, conceded a U.S. official, "the Sandinistas have certainly done much better than we have...
...communique from Havana last week sounded downright chummy. "Fidel expressed to Daniel the readiness of Cuba to cooperate with Nicaragua as far as possible to make the policy a success," read the statement. Fidel, of course, was the bearded one. And Daniel was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. The topic of conversation: a peace plan for Central America that Ortega had signed in Guatemala City the previous week...