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Daniel Ortega, president of the leftist Sandinista government, unexpectedly traveled to this small village on the Costa Rican border for the signing, which followed three days of talks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sandinistas, Contras Agree to Ceasefire | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...former members of President Anastasio Somoza's National Guard who have been in prison since the Sandinista revolution of July 1979 will be released after a final truce is worked out. Under Somoza, the army was called the National Guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sandinistas, Contras Agree to Ceasefire | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...decision to dispatch more than 3000 American troops to a Honduran air base came in response to confirmed Sandinista incursions into Honduras in pursuit of contra rebels. Even though the Sandinistas have reportedly withdrawn from Honduras and are negotiating a cease-fire with the contras, the United States still plans to keep its force in Honduras. But the troops may do more than what the Administration claims is their mission--to keep the Sandinistas from wiping out the contras...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shooting Down a Dove | 3/24/1988 | See Source »

Although the Reagan Administration insists that the troops will be kept far from the battle zone, the news that an American battalion moved within a dozen miles of the Nicaraguan border suggests that the Administration is once again putting its obsession with toppling the Sandinista government above the highly acclaimed regional peace plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shooting Down a Dove | 3/24/1988 | See Source »

...further its own ideological ambitions. The Administration, which fought long and hard against any non-lethal aid to the contras, is clearly using the events of this past week to win the recent debate over renewing military aid and thereby proceed with its announced intention of overthrowing the Sandinista government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shooting Down a Dove | 3/24/1988 | See Source »

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