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- <title>
- Dec. 25, 1989: World Notes:Central America
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 25, 1989 Cruise Control:Tom Cruise
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 29
- World Notes
- CENTRAL AMERICA
- Tight Smiles, Tense Accord
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Forget the warm smiles and bonhomie that usually attend
- summitry. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and his
- Salvadoran counterpart, Alfredo Cristiani, kept their distance
- during photo opportunities, and the 20 hours of negotiations
- sometimes grew strained. But when the five Central American
- Presidents emerged from their seventh regional summit near San
- Jose, Costa Rica, they signed a final communique that referred
- to a common commitment to nudging a stalled peace process.
- </p>
- <p> The declaration included a statement of support for
- Cristiani's seven-month-old government and a condemnation of the
- recent offensive launched by its leftist opponents, the
- Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Ortega's signature
- was particularly critical, since he has been accused of arming
- the F.M.L.N. In exchange, Ortega secured a clause urging the
- U.S. to halt its support of the Nicaraguan contras and to turn
- over all money earmarked for them to an international
- commission.
- </p>
- <p> No sooner was the ink dry than Ortega accused the
- Salvadoran army of dropping bombs on civilian neighborhoods in
- San Salvador. Cristiani's post-summit assessment of the
- Nicaraguan: "I don't trust Ortega."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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