No contra deal
NZPA-Reuter San Salvador Salvadoran rebels agreed yesterday to peace talks resulting from the Central American peace accord but Nicaragua’s contra rebels — with a new United States aid package — rejected a deal. “What the Sandinistas want is for us to disarm ourselves so that once disarmed they can stay forever in power,” a contra military leader, Enrique Bermudez, said in remarks published on Wednesday in the “El Heraldp” newspaper in Tegucigalpa.
He said his forces would not lay down their arms as a result of the unilateral cease-fire announced on Tuesday by President Daniel Ortega. Nicaragua on Wednesday released 17 Central American prisoners jailed for rebel activities in what it called a further step towards reconciliation in the spirit of the peace accord signed by the five Central American Presidents in Guatemala on August 7.
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Press, 25 September 1987, Page 6
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