Because baseball has such a resounding effect on Nicaraguan society, key decisions affecting the sport have always been made at a very high level.

"This is the time to talk about resettling the contras into the Nicaraguan society and not about keeping them together as a force."

Liberals and conservatives agreed today that the contras should return to Nicaraguan society.

The third interest controlling the nation's production was the Somoza family, which had wide holdings in almost every segment of Nicaraguan society.

He said he anticipated another group "accepting an amnesty if one was offered or, alternatively, melding back into Nicaraguan society."

The 1980 Literacy Campaign is considered to have been a major contribution to Nicaraguan society during the Sandinista rule.

"Nicaraguan society has become so militarized that civilian society practically does not exist," he wrote.

Few observers are optimistic that the talks will soon end the war or heal the deeply divided Nicaraguan society.

It said United States aid to the contras would diminish only "as the resistance forces are integrated into Nicaraguan society."

This is not to say that immigrants were not important to the evolution of Nicaraguan society and the Nicaraguan nation.