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- WORLD, Page 35World NotesNICARAGUAMore Mixed Messages
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- As President Daniel Ortega and Miguel Cardinal Obando y
- Bravo sat down for a 90-minute chat last week, the two men,
- frequent antagonists in the past, were uncommonly genial. So
- when Ortega requested that Obando go to Washington and ask the
- Bush Administration for direct talks between the two countries,
- the Cardinal promised to think it over.
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- During the next few days, however, the Sandinistas gave less
- cordial signals. First, they confiscated the coffee farms of
- three opposition members. Then, in Caracas, Nicaraguan Foreign
- Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann charged that unnamed U.S.
- officials were involved "down to the marrow of their bones" in
- drug trafficking.
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- Washington's reaction: Any talks with Ortega at this time
- would be premature.
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