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Murray Silberman San Jose, Costa Rica...
...biggest threat to the Sandinistas comes from Edén Pastora Gómez, 46, a flamboyant and popular former guerrilla leader known as Commander Zero. A hero of the Sandinista revolution, Pastora fled Nicaragua a year ago and eventually surfaced in Costa Rica last April. He passionately denounces his former comrades-in-arms as "traitors and murderers" and has called on the Nicaraguan people to "expel [them] from power." For the present, Pastora's strategy is to hope that his re-emergence will lead to the defection of other unhappy Sandinista supporters, and eventually divide the army...
...most of the less-developed countries, the global downturn has been devastating. In Costa Rica, where unemployment has risen to 17%, the government is stepping up a program to hand out bread, rice, beans and other food to the jobless. In Tanzania, where inflation is running at 29%, the government has dropped 966 projects from its budget, including the construction of several schools and the country's new capital at Dodoma...
...some hope that he will abide by that promise. The lone military man, Army Major General Llamil Reston, who will be Interior Minister, shares Bignone's conviction that the armed forces must cooperate closely with labor and political leaders. Among the casualties of the reshuffle: Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez, an intellectual architect of the Falklands fiasco...