Word: managua
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...elegant gray-haired woman sets down a bouquet of flowers in Managua's Central Municipal Cemetery, a man dressed in rags approaches to wash the gravestone she has come to visit. Breath foul, hands filthy, he bends to kiss her fingertips and rasps, "Dona Violeta, you're looking more beautiful than ever...
...firm, which has 20 employees, planned the reconstruction of a university campus outside of Lima, Peru, and drafted a master plan for Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, after it was hit by a huge quake...
Baker's next step will be to hold out a list of economic and diplomatic incentives to reward democratic reforms in Nicaragua. Such a list has not yet been compiled, but the rewards will probably include the presence of an American Ambassador in Managua for the first time in nearly a year, a gradual lifting by Washington of its almost four-year-old trade embargo, and loans through the Inter-American Development Bank...
...fighting force, Bush and Baker want to keep them in place and continue supplying them with food, clothing and medical supplies until the Nicaraguan elections, which the Sandinistas promise to hold next February. "Without the contras," says a Baker aide, "there will be even less incentive for Managua to fulfill its commitment to democratize, as it said it would when it signed on to the peace plan ((of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez...
Washington greeted the news as the inevitable result of Managua's social and military policies, but hinted it might be willing to negotiate with Ortega at a future date. Opposition leaders, for their part, were disappointed by the government's failure to address political issues that would guarantee democratic reforms. The Sandinistas, Insisting that their adoption of traditional economics implied no shift from revolutionary politics, are betting that their harsh measures can bring long-term economic viability to their regime...