The World - News from Nov. 9, 1988

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called for talks with the winner of the U.S. presidential election and proposed withdrawal of all foreign troops and military advisers from Central America. But Ortega said he has little hope that the election of a new U.S. President will mean a dramatic shift in what he called President Reagan’s terrorist policies in backing the Nicaraguan Contras. “Let’s work to eradicate from Central America, either immediately or gradually, the presence of all foreign military,” Ortega told a news conference. According to unofficial estimates, several thousand Cuban and Soviet military advisers are in Nicaragua. There are 1,200 U.S. troops in neighboring Honduras.