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...apparent peace offensive was prompted in large part by the Sandinistas' simultaneous announcement that presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 4 will not be postponed. The U.S. supports delaying the elections in order to give more preparation time to opposition candidates. The most prominent among them is Arturo Cruz, a disillusioned former member of the Sandinista junta. "They are very, very tricky," said Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Associate Robert Leiken, who recently wrote a scathing indictment of the Sandinista regime for the New Republic. Scheduling the vote for Nov. 4, he said, 'means that none of this...
Despite the Sandinistas' claims of open elections, a government-inspired mob two weeks ago attacked about 50 Cruz supporters at a meeting in the city of Masaya. The opposition members were assaulted by a crowd of perhaps 4,000, many wielding machetes, before police came to the rescue. Some of the attackers later said hat they had been organized by middle-level Sandinistas: block committee leaders and union organizers...
That was by no means an isolated event. Earlier that week pro-Sandinista youths known as turbas divinas (divine mobs) had harassed opposition supporters meeting in the city of León. Two days later another mob stoned Cruz's blue Ford while it was parked in front of the Recreo restaurant in the cattle-ranching town of Boaco, where the opposition leader was meeting with about 100 of his backers. Said Cruz as he surveyed his smashed windshield: "How can we go into an electoral process if this is going to happen every...
...they served notice last week that the issue of internal democracy may be beyond such negotiation. The Managua regime announced that it would uphold a ban on political privileges for a coalition of opposition parties, labor unions and business groups known as the coordinadora. The coalition, led by Arturo Cruz Sequeira, a onetime junta member, had refused to register for the Nov. 4 elections, charging that Sandinista restrictions on political freedom made a truly democratic race impossible. Said Democratic Representative John Bryant of Texas, an opponent of Reagan Administration policies who was in Nicaragua last week on a fact-finding...
...resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time Benoit was referred to Orthopedic Surgeon Stan James, in Eugene, Ore., whose roster of patients with knee problems reads like a Who 's Who of running: Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, Joaquim Cruz and Mary Decker. James first prescribed drug and physical therapy. Six days later, on April 23, a depressed Benoit was back in James' office; that morning the pain in her knee had forced her to pull up three miles into a run. James presented her with two options...