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...search for peace continued last week. In El Salvador, President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with representatives of Marxist-led guerrillas; they failed to sign a cease-fire but agreed to keep talking. More surprising, negotiators for the Guatemalan government and leftist rebels conferred in Madrid. They issued a terse statement claiming, "Both sides consider that the climate of the talks was satisfactory." That was the first hint that either side might be willing to settle a brutal guerrilla war that has claimed 30,000 lives in the past 16 years...
Although the Guatemalan accord is not perfect, Honduras is fully committed to the initiative, Contreras said. "We are participating in good faith, and I see reason for cautious optimism in the negotiations already underwayin El Salvador and the announcement by PresidentOrtega of a unilateral cease-fire," he said...
...asked him whether he had known all along about the diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the contras. "Casey nodded a frail yes." When asked why, Casey said, "I believed." Woodward says the CIA at one time used the late Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as informants. The CIA's reaction: "No comment...
...Sandinistas' most respected critics and chairman of the Reconciliation Commission, serve as a mediator between the two sides. The contras have embraced the idea and called for talks to begin Oct. 4, but the Sandinistas have not responded. That date, incidentally, may also be important in El Salvador. Both the government and the leftist guerrillas last week agreed to meet then for their first talks in three years...
...reborn La Prensa will appear Oct. 1. The paper has enough Soviet-supplied newsprint left to publish 27 daily editions. "After that," says Chamorro, "who knows?" That same question could be asked about the Oct. 4 target date for talks between the combatants in both - Nicaragua and El Salvador -- and, for that matter, about the future of peace in Central America...