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Article: Negotiator For Contras Takes Gamble; Alfredo Cesar Says Talks at Crucial Turn
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- The Washington Post
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- June 7, 1988
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Contra rebel leader Alfredo Cesar has gambled for high stakes in
two months of peace negotiations with the Sandinista government, and
this week, he says, he will know if it paid off.
Cesar, the least conservative of the five top political directors
of the contra alliance, the Nicaraguan Resistance, emerged during the
cease-fire talks as the first among equals, and now heads the contra
negotiating team after displacing veteran Adolfo Calero.
The 37-year-old Social Democrat was the most lucid exponent,
diplomats say, of the thesis that guided contra leaders to sign a
March 23 cease-fire accord in Sapoa, Nicaragua: when U.S. military
aid was cut off Feb. 3, he argued, the contras lost any ...