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...political killing touches off another Managua earthquake...
Five years after the earthquake that killed 10,000 people and sent office buildings tumbling into one another like falling dominoes, the downtown area of Nicaragua's capital city of Managua is still a semi-ghost town of empty lots and damaged structures. But the streets are passable again and often clogged with traffic. Thus Newspaper Publisher-Editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, 53, was driving at a leisurely pace last week as he headed from home on one side of the city toward his office on the other at La Prensa, the country's largest newspaper (circ...
...regime (with the encouragement of professional lobbyists hired by Somoza). U.S. government officials are known to be unhappy about the situation in Nicaragua; a Spanish news weekly recently quoted Assistant Secretary of State Terrence Todman as saying that "the Somoza family cannot continue in power." In Managua and in Washington, U.S. officals and leaders of the traditional opposition are engaging in conversations that could pave the way for more "liberal" government that would be respective of private property and U.S. interests in Nicaragua. Alternatively, a military coup with some form of U.S. backing is possible should Somoza refuse to step...
...secretary-general, Carlos Fonseca Amador, 40, was killed en route to a meeting, laid out under a mango tree and photographed; his fingertips were then sliced off for exact identification. Other ranking leaders of the leftist rebel movement have also been killed. Last month, in an unpublicized trial in Managua, 36 captured guerrillas and 74 of their compatriots who were tried in absentia drew sentences ranging from 18 months to 129 years in prison...
...Hughes was lying in bed naked," Stewart said. "The room was still heaving and it felt as if the hotel was going to collapse in a heap. The boss had to be the calmest man in Managua. He kept saying that he would be all right. He didn't show any anxiety about getting out of the hotel. He asked me 'What is the extent of the damage...