Word: disarmement
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Early last week there were disturbing signs that the cease-fire might never come to pass. In one of his final acts as Nicaragua's President, Daniel Ortega Saavedra demanded that the contras disarm before Chamorro's inauguration this week and suggested that failure to cooperate might jeopardize the peaceful transfer of power. Asked if the inauguration would take place as scheduled, he answered, "We are studying that. We are very close to peace and very close to war." The contra contingent that arrived in Managua the next day for cease- fire negotiations fanned the tension by vowing to avoid...
...contras to disband, and Ciguena doubts that she can function as President without him and his fellow fighters. "The Sandinistas," Ciguena warns, "are very treacherous. If we turn in our arms now, they'll finish us off and go after Dona Violeta. It's the Sandinistas that must disarm...
Daniel Ortega Saavedra could not disagree more. "If we don't want the storm of civil war and insurrection to sweep us away, then the contras must disarm," he said last week. While initially gracious in defeat, the Sandinista leader has since turned recalcitrant. Besides demanding that the contras demobilize immediately, Ortega & Co. have publicly insisted on the Sandinistas' retaining control of the 70,000-member army and the Interior Ministry even after the new government is sworn in April 25. In its last days, the defeated regime is also moving to enact sweeping laws that would turn public property...
...inauguration may be derailed by the contras' intransigence, the rebel leaders are trying to appear reasonable. They have said they are willing to dismantle their forces, and though they talk of the need to "demilitarize" Nicaragua, they have dropped their initial condition that the Sandinista People's Army disarm simultaneously. Insists the group's chief negotiator, Oscar Sobalvarro: "The only thing that interests our people is to be able to go back without reprisals...
...much of the past year, it was considered bold to ask, What if Gorbachev really is willing to disarm significantly? What if he is prepared to demilitarize Soviet society and Soviet foreign policy? What if he adopts levels and deployments of troops, types and numbers of weapons that give real meaning to his slogans of "mutual security" and "nonoffensive defense...