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WORLD, Page 35World NotesNICARAGUAMore Mixed Messages
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.
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.
Washington's reaction: Any talks with Ortega at this time would
be premature.