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...site last week for a ceremony attended by hundreds of rebels that marked the dismantling of the contra base camps. Abel Ignasio Cespedes, known to his insurgent troops as Comandante Ciro, turned over a battered West German G-3 automatic rifle to a representative of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who will be inaugurated as Nicaragua's President this week. The weapon was then handed to Major General Agustin Quesada Gomez, commander of a United Nations peacekeeping force, who passed it on to be cut apart with a blowtorch. In all, 365 weapons were surrendered and destroyed. "Today," said Quesada Gomez...
...larger question is whether the contra problem will now end in Nicaragua. On paper the prospects seem promising. Last week a determined Chamorro successfully prodded Sandinista and contra representatives into signing agreements that established an immediate cease-fire and committed the contras to a total demobilization by June 10. But those agreements may prove as misleading as the ceremony in Yamales, where only wounded or ailing contras turned over their weaponry. Perhaps 12,000 of their hale colleagues slipped back into Nicaragua after Chamorro's upset electoral victory on Feb. 25. Top contra commanders, most of whom were...
...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...
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...
...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...