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After a month of mixed signals, the answer finally appears to be yes to the much disputed issue. The F.S.L.N. and Chamorro's transition team agreed last week that the Sandinista People's Army and the Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, should be "subordinated to the civil power of the president of the republic." In a seven-point document, the two sides also specified that the new government could reduce the size of the military. Chamorro has promised deep cuts in the 70,000-man army, as well as in the police force, whose size is secret...
...months since they came to power, Havel and his democratically inclined colleagues have practically erased communism from political life. They are finding it far harder, however, to do away with another legacy: Czechoslovakia's extensive role as arms supplier to Communist regimes, liberation movements and outright terrorists. Says an Interior Ministry official: "The Communists may be gone, but they have locked us into a web of arms deals and even terrorism that may be impossible to escape...
...largest nuclear power plants. These moves were accompanied by a shower of anti-Lithuanian decrees from Moscow. The most ominous was a directive from Gorbachev ordering Lithuanians to turn in their firearms. He also instructed the KGB to step up security on the borders and asked the Foreign and Interior Ministries to tighten control over foreigners in the republic...
...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 over to Sandinista officials and give immunity for all unprosecuted crimes committed since their revolution in 1979. As the contras...
Whatever Rafsanjani's intentions, it is Iran's radical opposition, led by former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami, that maintains the closest ties with the hostage takers -- and even Mohtashami has only limited sway over them. Last week the Revolutionary Justice Organization, which has three hostages, vowed, "There is no intention to release hostages." Meanwhile, it was disclosed that last month President Bush accepted a phone call from an impostor claiming to be Rafsanjani. Though they do not know for sure, White House officials think the hoax was perhaps perpetrated by Mohtashami's faction to embarrass Rafsanjani...