The World - News from June 20, 1988
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called for another round of talks between his leftist Sandinista government and the U.S.-supported Contras in an effort to reach a permanent truce in the war. “We consider it very important to hold another meeting here in Managua before June 30,” Ortega told a news conference in Managua. A truce that began March 21 ends at the end of June. In a meeting March 23 in the southern border post of Sapoa, the two sides signed an agreement on steps to end the war, but they have remained deadlocked on details for implementing the accord.
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