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...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. Now, it seems, the Sandinistas are finding those promises too troublesome to keep...
...trials, the political secretary of the FSLN in Leon, and the National Secretary of Foreign Relations--of the 46 representatives on the National Council of State, less than 25 per cent are women. And the five-person ruling junta has not had a woman member since Violeta Barrios de Chamorro resigned last April...
...Chamorro said the campaign will not only alert Nicaraguans to the importance of participating in the political process, but will also encourage them to increase their productivity and to adopt more sanitary methods...
Forty teachers and 40 university students have already tested the teaching methods and are now training 600 new teachers; these 600 will train 7000; the 7000 will train 120,000--"all of this supported by the radio, television, and newspapers," Chamorro said...
...Chamorro said the eradication of malaria, the collection of peasant folklore, and the discovery of archeological treasures will be "possible by-products of the campaign...