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...messages to the public. Last month, for example, six parties issued a document proposing a cease-fire, an end to the state of emergency and a new schedule for elections. The proposal was censored from La Prensa, the country's only nongovernment newspaper, which regularly has stories excised by Interior Ministry watchdogs...
Ortega is known as the directorate's pragmatist. Partly because he was willing to negotiate with the bourgeoisie during the tense days of the Terceristas, he is sometimes considered more moderate than other members of the directorate. His moderation, however, is reportedly challenged by the hard-line Marxism of Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez. Still, says one Sandinista official, Ortega "doesn't pull any punches...
...that while in Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative type," says NBC. In a none too subtle reference to Iacocca's Ellis Island scuffle with Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, Lido, asked about a shack in a stakeout scene, replies, "It's just a leftover from some developers who wanted to put up a hotel. We don't go for commercializing public land." Lido is ready to shoot off more than his mouth...
...combative nature and his fierce ambition to become President. The new Premier's advisers softened his image during the recent campaign by dressing him in muted tweeds and exchanging his severe black-framed eyeglasses for lighter tortoiseshells. Still, the real Chirac may prove irrepressible. Says Charles Pasqua, the new Interior Minister: "Chirac is a fighter, given to committing himself...
Developing countries see drug abuse as America's dilemma, not theirs. Says Bolivian Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy: "It is unfair to put most of the weight on the coca-producing countries when it is a simple law of demand. American and Western European consumers keep doping more and more. Consequently more coca is planted." For that reason, U.S. corporations that try to stem the demand for drugs are getting right to the heart of the problem...