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When Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright first proposed last month that Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez be invited to address Congress, the White House responded with enthusiasm. Officials reasoned that a visit from Arias, architect of the peace plan signed last month in Guatemala City by five Central American Presidents, would demonstrate the Reagan Administration's interest in talking peace rather than making...
...Secretary had barely finished his testimony when the inevitable Democratic fireworks began. House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas, who recently co-sponsored with Reagan a now moribund Central American peace plan, promptly denounced the aid request as "inappropriate." Such aid, he charged, would frustrate the peace agreement signed in Guatemala City last month by five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, that calls for a regionwide cease-fire to take effect on Nov. 7. Any congressional move toward military aid right now, said Wright, "assumes the failure of the peace process, and I don't think it will fail." Wright hinted...
...contras have not specified how long the cease-fire would have to hold before they would be willing to give up the fight. But much like the Reagan- Wright peace plan, their proposal seems designed to force a refusal from the Sandinistas. "The big attraction of the Guatemala plan for the Sandinistas was that it left the contras high and dry," says a Western diplomat in Honduras. The contras hope that a Nicaraguan refusal will persuade the Honduran government to take a tougher stand on the accord...
...their fathers had used copies of The Prophet: to impress girls with their sensitivity. Here, liberated by parody, he remints visual cliches, like the gloriously fake matte paintings of fairy-tale realms, and they are funny- lovely. As for the Princess Bride, she is flat-out lovely. Wright's grave blond beauty makes her the wedding-cake figure around which all the movie's clowns cavort. As you watch this enchanting fantasy, feel free to be thrilled or to giggle, as you wish. This time, Happily Ever After lasts 98 minutes...
Gather round, kids of all ages, as swashbuckling Westley (played by Cary Elwes, who looks like a young Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) sets out to rescue the impossibly beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright) from a monarchy full of dastards. To do this, he will outduel the expert swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), outwit the scheming Sicilian Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and outwrestle a rodent of unusual size. Buttercup will survive an attack by a swarm of shrieking eels and an attempt on her honor by wicked Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), whom Westley will climactically engage in a fight "to the pain." There will...