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Lopez Portillo's last suggestion drew a stony silence from members of Nicaragua's Sandinista directorate, who sat next to him on the speaker's platform. Directorate Member Daniel Ortega Saavedra offered Nicaragua's five-point plan for better relations with the U.S. and its Central American neighbors, including regional nonaggression pacts, joint patrols by the Hondurans and Nicaraguans of their border, and a commitment to free elections and political pluralism in Nicaragua. Washington responded politely but noncommittally to the proposals of Lopez Portillo, who later called the economic aspects of Reagan's Caribbean plan...
Though Pérez Esquivel is only the second Argentine ever to win the Peace Prize (the first was Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas in 1936 for having settled the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay), the reaction of the junta was singularly graceless. Claiming that the award had "taken the country by surprise," the military leadership charged that Pérez Esquivel's activities "were effectively used, regardless of his intentions, to make the movement of various terrorist organizations easier...
...first clear indication of the government's moratorium on elections came late last month in a speech by Humberto Ortega Saavedra, 34, the Defense Minister. On the same platform was the visiting President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, who had made a strong plea, as advice from a neighbor, for early elections. But when it came his turn to speak, Ortega announced that elections would not be held until 1985. "The economic and moral destruction of the country is of such magnitude that it cannot be rebuilt before 1985," he said, by way of explanation...
...splendid set of peripheral bit players first reach the reader, filtered through the ironic mind of Dr. Plarr. His own bereaved mother, living on sweet cakes and self-pity in Buenos Aires. Romantic Novelist Jorge Julio Saavedra, author of The Taciturn Heart, whose machismo-marinated works are timeless and thus lifeless as well. A British ambassador who begins to sense the sheer outrage of U.S. imperialism when he finds that the embassy cook automatically fries his eggs Yankee style. Fortnum's wife Clara, who is (yes) a graduate of Madame Sanchez's immaculate brothel and the object...
...Rafael had little more than bad sunburn and dehydration to show for his ordeal. His nurse was earnestly trying to teach him English, but so far, his vocabulary was largely confined to one word, which for him clearly summed up his present condition and future prospects. "Okay," said Rafael Saavedra over and over again. "Okay...