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...Barrios de Chamorro is a strong believer in a series of % visitations by the Madonna in the small town of Cuapa, where Mary was witnessed by a church caretaker several times from May through October of 1980. During a 1981 Mass celebrated at the spot by the Archbishop of Managua, with some 30,000 people in attendance, believers say the sun changed colors. In Hrushiw, Ukraine, tens of thousands of people gathered in 1987 after a 12- year-old claimed to see the Madonna hovering over a church that had been shut down by the ruling communists...
This month, Chamorro vetoed legislation intended to roll back the giveaway, prompting her own coalition to accuse her of betraying voters. The U.S. has volunteered to pay to recover weapons from Sandinista and ex-contra civilians, a policy Managua does not favor because it fears former Sandinistas will pocket the cash and get other guns, possibly from the army...
Over the next two months, new gold cordobas worth 5 million old cordobas, or 20 cents each, will replace the piggies as legal paper tender. Chamorro publicly set fire to a small mountain of worn-out cordobas that had already been exchanged, then went shopping at a Managua supermarket armed with a supply of the new currency...
Last week Central American Airlines, owned partly by former Sandinista officials, inaugurated service between Managua and Miami, its rented Boeing 727 less than half-filled with passengers lured by a bargain $275 round-trip fare. Said CAAL director Herty Lewites, the former Minister of Tourism: "I want to be the richest man in Nicaragua." Backed by $1.75 million from a Nicaraguan-born millionaire living in Greece, CAAL hopes its thrice-weekly flights can undercut state-owned Aeronica, which charges...
...everything but the nails on which pictures once hung. The new Minister of Communications searched his premises in vain for accounting ledgers; he did discover a contract for the purchase of 22 new Toyotas, for $392,000, all apparently driven off by army members. The incoming mayor of Managua learned that $52,192.53 was distributed as bonuses to six employees, some of whom quit promptly when he took office. The pilfering has been so blatant that ex-President Daniel Ortega does not even try to deny it: "What is being called plundering was nothing more than a decision to benefit...