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<text id=90TT0487>
<title>
Feb. 26, 1990: World Notes:Organizations
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Feb. 26, 1990 Predator's Fall
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 30
World Notes
ORGANIZATIONS
Passing The Torch
</hdr>
<body>
<p> For years young contra leaders tried to topple their
autocratic military commander, Enrique Bermudez. The former
Somoza colonel, though, was the CIA's man in the jungle and
invulnerable to rebel coups. So when Bermudez was removed two
weeks ago, it was clear that he had lost the CIA's backing.
</p>
<p> Bermudez had long received regular payments and cagily
spread funds among key loyalists. Just before his ouster,
however, the agency took the commander off the payroll. Bermudez
found himself without supporters.
</p>
<p> The move signals the end of CIA involvement in the moribund
struggle against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, since Bermudez
was the last contra on the payroll. By severing its sole known
tie to the rebels, the CIA acknowledged that the contras are
finished as a fighting force. The cutoff also signals a small
victory for Secretary of State James Baker. He wants the contras
to negotiate an end to their dispute with the Sandinistas.
</p>
<p> Bermudez's departure leaves leadership of the 10,000-member
contra force in the hands of Israel Galeano, 29. He and the new
leadership recognize the futility of further armed struggle.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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