The World - News from July 5, 1985

In a July 4 letter, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called on President Reagan to open a new round of talks aimed at normalizing relations. “Let this anniversary be a time of reflection for both of our governments,” Ortega said in the letter published in Nicaraguan newspapers. “Let them, through serious and constructive conversations, lead us to the normalization of relations.” Washington suspended talks in January with Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government, which Reagan accuses of trying to spread Marxist insurgency throughout Central America.