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- <text id=89TT1737>
- <title>
- July 03, 1989: World Notes:Nicaragua
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 03, 1989 Great Ball Of Fire:Angry Sun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 35
- World Notes
- NICARAGUA
- More Mixed Messages
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> Washington's reaction: Any talks with Ortega at this time
- would be premature.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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