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From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: M-I: Archrivals Ortega, Aleman meet in Nicaragua (fwd)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 22:29:48 18000


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> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:45:47 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Victor O. Story" <story-AT-kutztown.edu>
> To: ATWS <thrdwrld-AT-sphinx.Gsu.EDU>
> Subject: Archrivals Ortega, Aleman meet in Nicaragua (fwd)
> 
> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997
> <P>	 MANAGUA (Reuter) - Nicaragua took a major step toward
> political stability Monday when President Arnoldo Aleman and
> left-wing opposition leader Daniel Ortega met and agreed to
> continue negotiations to end hostilites.</P>
> <P>	 The long-awaited meeting between the bitter rivals who
> dominate Nicaraguan politics came three days after Aleman
> assumed the presidency.</P>
> <P>	 ``We have agreed to maintain this communication, maintain
> this exchange, to later take concrete steps that will allow us
> to lay the basis for stability in Nicaragua,'' Ortega told
> reporters after the meeting in Aleman's presidential office.</P>
> <P>	 Ortega, a former president who lost the October elections to
> Aleman, was accompanied by four members of the Sandinista ruling
> council. Ortega and Aleman allowed a joint photo opportunity
> upon entering the meeting but held separate news conferences
> afterward.</P>
> <P>	 Ortega said no pact had been reached, but the political will
> existed to find a solution to Nicaragua's problems.</P>
> <P>	 The meeting clearly eased tensions and brought relief to
> Aleman, whose power to govern effectively will depend on his
> ability to reach an agreement with the defeated but still
> powerful Sandinistas, analysts have said.</P>
> <P>	 Even though its civil war ended seven years ago, Nicaragua
> remains polarized between the Sandinistas and Aleman's
> right-wing Liberal Alliance.</P>
> <P>	 ``This is a good signal that the country is now on the road
> of dialogue that has always been the best weapon to move the
> country forward without bloodshed,'' Aleman said.</P>
> <P>	 Aleman said both his Liberal Alliance and the Sandinistas
> agreed that the key issues needing to be resolved were the
> lingering dispute over private property and the establishment of
> the rule of law.</P>
> <P>	 The legal status of thousands of properties confiscated
> during the 1979-1990 Sandinista government remain in limbo,
> pitting their former owners against the current occupants.</P>
> <P>	 After beating Ortega in Nicaragua's Oct. 20 presidential
> vote, Aleman had invited Ortega to meet with him, but Ortega
> refused.</P>
> <P>	 At the time he accused Aleman of having won by fraud and
> refused to recognize the new government's legitimacy.
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