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<text id=90TT0851>
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Apr. 09, 1990: World Notes:Nicaragua
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 09, 1990 America's Changing Colors
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 59
World Notes
NICARAGUA
One Army, Under Violeta
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<p> The question has hovered menacingly since Violeta Chamorro's
upset win last February in Nicaragua's presidential elections:
Would the defeated Sandinista National Liberation Front
(F.S.L.N.) relinquish control of the army and police force that
kept it in power for ten years?
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<p> After a month of mixed signals, the answer finally appears
to be yes to the much disputed issue. The F.S.L.N. and
Chamorro's transition team agreed last week that the Sandinista
People's Army and the Interior Ministry, which oversees the
police, should be "subordinated to the civil power of the
president of the republic." In a seven-point document, the two
sides also specified that the new government could reduce the
size of the military. Chamorro has promised deep cuts in the
70,000-man army, as well as in the police force, whose size is
secret but is estimated at 10,000.
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<p> One sticking point is the reluctance of some anti-Sandinista
contras to lay down their weapons before Chamorro takes office
on April 25. But the rebels are running out of friends faster
than ammunition. When 100 contras ambushed and killed a dozen
Sandinista soldiers near the Honduran border last week, the
attack was swiftly denounced by the newspaper La Prensa, owned
and operated by the Chamorro family.
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