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...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...
...Sandinistas and the contras are not the only ones who can derail the peace process. This week in El Salvador, President Jose Napoleon Duarte is scheduled to begin peace negotiations with the country's leftist guerrillas. But a dispute over whether the rebels must first put down their arms threatens to abort the talks. Arias, who has agreed to mediate, will undoubtedly struggle valiantly to pull the talks back on track. But if the plan stalls in El Salvador, it may be the beginning of the end for the Guatemala peace accord...
...House and Senate, the Administration drew a fine distinction. The $110 bonus is justified by the threat of terrorist attack, it claimed, not military hostilities. National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci pointed out that the bonuses have been paid under similar circumstances to service personnel in Lebanon and El Salvador...
...Wright. According to State Department officials, Reagan had intended to present the Sandinistas with a proposal that they could only reject, then ask Congress for new contra funding before the current aid expires on Sept. 30. But the scheme went awry. Three days later, when the Presidents of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua met in Guatemala City to discuss a homegrown peace proposal, the Central American leaders allied with the U.S. felt compelled to sign their version. "What were we supposed to do?" asks a Honduran official. "Be the only ones not for peace?" One major difference...
...following year, ISA and Seaspray worked together on a mission, code- named Queens Hunter, to locate leftist guerrilla forces in El Salvador by monitoring their radio transmissions. Seaspray pilots flew planes from Honduras to track the transmitters electronically; ISA agents rode along to operate the airborne radio equipment. Although the operation was planned to last only a month, it picked up so much useful information on where the guerrillas were hiding that it was extended for three years...