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...those whom he accused of hindering the peace plan. In a letter to three top contra leaders who fled Nicaragua several years ago and now reside in Costa Rica, the soft-spoken President demanded that they abandon their rebel activities or leave his country. The three, Alfonso Robelo, Alfredo Cesar and Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, sit on the six-member board that directs the contras' political affairs and produces a steady stream of anti-Sandinista propaganda. The next day Arias counterbalanced his anti-contra blast with a blunt four-page letter accusing Nicaragua's Ortega of failing to comply with...
...Sandinistas] are simply playing games around a serious subject--the gaining of peace in Nicaragua," said Alfredo Cesar, another Resistance director...
Meanwhile, the six-member political directorate of the contras offered to travel to Managua to hold direct talks with the Sandinistas. "So far the Sandinistas have been able to comply with the easy part of the plan," said Alfredo Cesar. "We are starting today the hardball game." Ortega swiftly warned that the rebel leaders would be jailed if they tried to return to Nicaragua without first applying for amnesty. But aides close to Arias expect that the Sandinistas will soon grant a concession on this point. They claim that Ortega has quietly asked Arias for help in persuading some...
...come. But contra officials fear that a total shutdown of aid might propel many guerrillas to give up the fight and either head for the border or return home under a Nicaraguan amnesty program. Some of their leaders may even head the flight. In Washington, Rebel Leader Alfredo Cesar said last week that if U.S. aid dries up, contra officials may call a halt to all military actions, a decision they know would unsettle the Reagan Administration...
Noriega's cronies have also been suspected of drug trafficking. His personal aide, Colonel Julian Melo, was implicated in the operations of a large cocaine laboratory inside Panama; Melo was fired but not prosecuted. Last year Cesar Rodriguez, who had worked as a pilot for Noriega, was murdered in Colombia in what appeared to be a drug deal gone awry. Critics charge that while Noriega has deported some midlevel traffickers to the U.S., he has never arrested the cocaine barons who use Panama as a plush hideout. After Colombia's Justice Minister, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated in 1984, leaders...