Contra Leaders Reject Plan to Keep Them Inside Hotel

MIAMI —  Contra leaders today demanded freedom for their negotiators to move around Nicaragua during next week’s peace talks, rejecting a Sandinista proposal limiting them to a Managua airport hotel.

“We will not go to Nicaragua to be confined,” Contra director Pedro Joaquin Chamorro said at a news conference at the Miami headquarters of the Nicaraguan Resistance, as the anti-government rebels are formally called.

Adolfo Calero, the director named today as head of the negotiating team, said the Contras were demanding the right to meet freely with Nicaraguan opposition leaders, the press, Roman Catholic and anti-draft groups, and to publish their ads in both the government and opposition press.

Chamorro said the Contras sent their counterproposal to the leftist Sandinista government late this morning and were awaiting a reply.