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John Paul made references to abortion, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare during his speech at the conclusion of a Mass in the square on the steps outside St. Peter's Basilica...
...told them democracy, pluralistic society, free trade, freedom of religion. But among the revolutionaries there was an organization that had existed before the revolution--the Sandinistas, a Communist organization. The man whom they honor, Sandino, he said he was a Communist. (Augusto Cesar Sandino, assassinated in 1934, was a guerrilla leader and nationalist who in fact was not a Communist.) They ousted their other allies in the revolution, and then they established a totalitarian Communist regime, the same process that Castro employed in taking over Cuba...
Ortega and the Sandinista revolution came of age together. Daniel, the eldest of five children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until...
...Last week she kept her campaign pledge by releasing all known political prisoners of the Marcos era. Among them were were Jose Maria Sison, 47, founder and former chairman of the outlawed Communist Party; Bernabe Buscayno, 42, the alleged founder of the New People's Army, the party's guerrilla arm; and two members of a rebel hit squad. The four reputed Communists were freed over the objections of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Chief of Staff Fidel Ramos. Aquino's move may prove to be a shrewd stroke. Both Sison and Buscayno have been in jail for nearly...
...least one regional N.P.A. command scoffed at that, demanding the ouster of Ramos and Enrile before talk of a cease-fire could begin. But the government is apparently considering at least one intriguing sweetener: paying the rebels above-market prices for turning in their guns. Under the plan, a guerrilla might receive, say, $1,750 for an automatic rifle worth $1,500 on the open market. He would also be offered a place in an employment-training program. Those who finished the course would be guaranteed jobs on a government-owned farm, where they would be given a salary...