The World - News from June 21, 1989
The State Department rejected a Nicaraguan offer to hold talks on improving relations, saying there can be no accommodation unless certain conditions are met, including free and fair elections under international supervision. President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua had said he was asking the archbishop of Managua, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, to go to Washington with a Sandinista proposal for opening talks on normalizing relations. But State Department spokesman Rudi Boone said that, in addition to democratic elections, Managua must hold a genuine dialogue with its opposition and end “its support for subversion in the region” before U.S.-Nicaraguan ties can be improved.
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