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...Salvador and Guatemala would be deprived of new arms, and the contras would be ejected from their bases in Honduras. Not surprisingly, the contras remain deeply suspicious. "There's just no way we're going to put down our arms and surrender," says Contra Leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr. "We will not disarm until the Sandinistas are on an irreversible path to democratization...
...that is of greater harm to the community, in this case alleged CIA lawbreaking in Central America. To bolster the cause, Defense Attorney Leonard Weinglass, one of Hoffman's lawyers in the 1969 Chicago Seven trial, got testimony from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and onetime Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro. "These young people are doing perhaps what most of us should be doing," Juror Anne Gaffney, 64, said afterward...
This is a valid, if trite, argument. But again, Rushdie cannot leave well-enough alone. Speaking with Violetta Chamorro, matriarch of the La Prensa "family," he stops believing her the moment he notices that she is wearing jewelry. She is rich and therefore cannot be trusted. His objectivity, as much as hers, is brought into question by such prejudgement. Rushdie claims he went to Nicaragua looking for answers. But he seems to have known all along what he wanted to find...
...publisher of La Prensa, Violeta Chamorro, received the award for her paper's fight to keep a free press alive in Nicaragua, the Nieman Foundation said...
...Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, presi dent, La Prensa...