Word: sandinistas
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...JOSE, Costa Rica--Contra leaders met yesterday with peace mediator Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo and then announced that they will open direct cease-fire talks with Nicaragua's Sandinista government...
...Sandinista negotiators arrived in San Jose late Wednesday, led by Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco. He said his team came to Costa Rica to begin immediate negotiations with the Contras, although the talks were set for next Thursday...
...cardinal had no knowledge that the Sandinista commission would be here," said Adolfo Calero, a director of the rebel umbrella group known as the Nicaraguan Resistance at a news conference following a two-hour meeting with Obando y Bravo. "We do not know and the cardinal did not know how this confusion occurred...
...Contras have been fighting for six years to overthrow the Sandinista government...
...same time, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) said the administration has decided to sit out the peace process because it is at odds with the president's goal of eliminating the Sandinista regime from Nicaragua...