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<text id=91TT2142>
<title>
Sep. 30, 1991: World Notes:Nicaragua
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
NICARAGUA
Thunder on The Right
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<p> The decade-long civil war between the U.S.-backed contra
rebels and the Sandinistas is supposed to be over. It has been 18
months since a coalition led by President Violeta Barrios de
Chamorro ousted the Sandinista National Liberation Front in free
elections, and 14 months since about 27,500 contras voluntarily
surrendered their weapons. But harassment by the army and
police, which remain under Sandinista control, has driven about
1,000 so-called recontras to rearm, threatening a recrudescence
of the war.
</p>
<p> There have been 52 killings of demobilized rebels since
July 1990. In retaliation, the recontras have attacked
cooperative farms established by the Sandinistas. The former
rebels are also angry about Chamorro's coddling of the
Sandinistas, who refuse to return the houses and land they
expropriated and then divided among themselves before they left
office.
</p>
<p> This month, Chamorro vetoed legislation in tended to roll
back the giveaway, prompting her own coalition to accuse her of
betraying voters. The U.S. has volunteered to pay to recover
weapons from Sandinista and ex-contra civilians, a policy
Managua does not favor because it fears former Sandinistas will
pocket the cash and get other guns, possibly from the army.
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