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...Miami, where an influx of Caribbean refugees and a burgeoning drug trade have caused a paroxysm of violent crime, Cuban-born Challenger Manolo Reboso, 46, is counting on heavy Cuban support to unseat four-term Incumbent Maurice Ferre. Reboso is an outspoken admirer of the late Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza and was a leader of Democrats supporting Reagan. Perhaps the most direct, if quixotic, challenge to Reagan Administration policies came in a nonbinding referendum in Boston. Proposed was an increase in "quality education, public transportation, energy-efficient housing and other essential services-by reducing the amount of our tax dollars...
...four business leaders were COSEP Directors Enrique Dreyfus, Benjamin Lanzas, Gilberto Cuadra and Enrique Bolanos. All had strongly supported the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. They had also advocated a mixed economy of socialism and free enterprise to rebuild Nicaragua's war-torn economy. But from the beginning, according to a Sandinista document, the government had planned to give the capitalists free rein only until it was able to take over the economy. COSEP members saw their control whittled away by nationalizations of banks, some industry and agricultural holdings. The economy became dependent upon an estimated $450 million...
...understands the power of a free press better than Nicaragua's Sandinistas, who overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza two years ago with the help of the crusading opposition newspaper, La Prensa. Under Somoza, La Prensa (circ. 75,000) had paid a steep price for its dissenting views: its reporters were beaten and jailed, its offices were bombed, and finally its unflinching editor, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, was murdered by Somoza's henchmen. When the Sandinistas came to power 18 months later, they promised to create a pluralistic society in which freedom of the press would guaranteed...
...most popular figure of the Sandinista revolution. In August 1978 he led the takeover of the National Palace in Managua, a daring assault that marked the beginning of the end for the forces of Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza. After the Sandinistas seized power, the movie-handsome guerrilla became an almost legendary symbol of the successful struggle. Whenever he appeared in public, crowds would break into spontaneous applause for the man they called by his nom de guerre: Comandante Cero (Commander Zero...
Glum at the outcome, church leaders vowed to continue their right-to-life fight from the pulpit. Canon law holds that abortion is a grave sin and that all those involved in it-doctors, nurses, as well as patients-incur automatic excommunication. Anastasio Alberto Cardinal Ballestrero, president of the Italian Bishops Conference, noted that the church must "never renounce its mission of evangelization and education of the human conscience.'" Said Vittoria Quarenghi, a Christian Democratic member of parliament and a leader in the antiabortion drive: "We have not lost the war, only a battle." -By George Russell. Reported...