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Tennis is tingling with new possibilities -- his and hers. American Michael Chang and Spaniard Arantxa Sanchez turn Paris into a dance for 17-year-olds...
...equivalent of arresting Dwight Eisenhower in the wake of the Normandy invasion. Last week Cuba announced that Army General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, a hero of the revolution and former top commander of Cuban forces in Ethiopia and Angola, had been arrested for drug trafficking and corruption. Ochoa, said the Communist Party paper Granma, had "reached agreements" with drug smugglers "near our territory." In addition, six other military officers were similarly arrested...
...fights her battles on the front pages, and occasionally face to face, with men she believes have betrayed Nicaragua. In the summer of 1987, Ortega signed a Central American peace plan proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. Among other things, the plan required each of the five participating countries to show that it had a free press. Ortega dispatched an emissary to tell Chamorro that La Prensa, then still banned, could reopen -- subject to government censorship. "I told him I wasn't interested," says Dona Violeta. "He became very nervous and explained to me that if La Prensa...
...closed in on him, Bush has gone to his faithful telephone. Just 15 minutes before he was scheduled to make his statement to the nation on sending troops to Panama, Bush paused in his hurried preparations and put in a call to Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias Sanchez, the Nobel Peace laureate, even though he had spoken with him just a few hours earlier. "I'd just feel better if I know what's on his mind," the President said...
...violent tactics, the opposition was willing to meet with the Panamanian leader. There were hints that Noriega might also be amenable to talks. One of the general's supporters, former Commerce Minister Mario Rognoni, suggested that possible intermediaries for such an undertaking might be Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, a Mexican official or a papal envoy. But precisely what would be negotiated at such a session remained unclear. Noriega may plan eventually to schedule another presidential election and find another loyalist to serve as his stand-in. Endara and his allies, for their part, are adamant that any pact...