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Article: Sandinistas Urged to Talk to Contras; Honduran Leader Joins Arias, Duarte in Appeal for Negotiations
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- The Washington Post
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- October 16, 1987
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President Jose Azcona has called on the Sandinistas to negotiate
a cease-fire directly with rebels seeking their overthrow and said
his government will be released from obligations under a Central
American peace plan unless Managua complies fully with it by a Nov. 7
deadline.
In an interview late yesterday in the Presidential Palace here,
the Honduran president joined a growing chorus of Central American
demands for direct peace talks between the Sandinistas and leaders of
the U.S.-backed rebels.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, the architect of the Central
American peace accord and winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize,
and Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is visiting ...