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WASHINGTON--Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze reported progress yesterday toward an arms control accord that could be signed at the next super-power summit meeting...
...balance against Noriega within the Administration is political factors. Recent protests in Panama show growing middle-class opposition to his rule. After pro-Noriega demonstrators damaged the U.S. embassy in Panama in June, Washington suspended military and economic aid; the freeze will continue, suggested Secretary of State George Shultz, until Panama's military gets out of politics. "There's been a decision made that we can afford to let the relationship deteriorate a little bit," says a State Department policymaker. The Pentagon and some in the intelligence community, concerned about Cuban activity in Panama, are coming to a similar conclusion...
...meeting in the White House Oval Office, Ronald Reagan and George Shultz sealed a surprising accord with House Speaker Jim Wright and other congressional leaders. Three days later, in a grand reception room at the National Palace in Guatemala City, five Central American Presidents, including Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega Saavedra, proclaimed they had reached their own "historic compromise." And so, after six years of undeclared war between the U.S.-backed contras and the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, the battle last week suddenly became one between two rival peace plans for the region...
Although Secretary of State Shultz proclaimed that the Reagan-Wright plan was "not a ploy," there was reason for skepticism. The Administration has a history of announcing peace initiatives whenever contra funding is up for renewal. Late in 1984 a memo from John Poindexter, then Deputy National Security Adviser, to his boss, Robert McFarlane, set out a deceptive scheme: "Continue active negotiations but agree on no treaty and act to work out some way to support the contras either directly or indirectly. Withhold true objectives from staffs...
...Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz declared that the freeze on aid to Panama would continue until the "emergence of civilian, democratic control." A bipartisan group of Senators that included conservative Jesse % Helms and liberal Edward Kennedy announced they would sponsor legislation to continue the aid freeze indefinitely. In Miami, U.S. drug-enforcement agents began looking into new allegations that Noriega has taken payoffs from drug traffickers...