Word: nicaragua
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...month. The 800 public servants fired since Chamorro's inauguration on April 25 were granted compensation. And the government suspended plans to return to private ownership properties confiscated during the 10 years of Sandinista rule. With those concessions, virtually every prong of Chamorro's campaign to decentralize and restructure Nicaragua's bankrupt economy has been blunted...
...both Chamorro and Ortega appealed for calm, hotheaded civilians armed with rocks, Molotov cocktails and AK-47 rifles erected cobblestone barricades, ignited piles of tires and engaged in sporadic gunfire. From some trenches flew the red-and-black Sandinista flag, from others Nicaragua's blue-and-white flag. At least four civilians died and scores were wounded. Fretted a local businessman: "This must be how Beirut began...
...With Nicaragua on the brink of chaos, Chamorro offered last Wednesday to reopen talks with the unions and Sandinista leaders. By the next morning, agreement was reached and calm restored. Union leaders pointed triumphantly to the long list of concessions. Chamorro's supporters hailed as a victory the army's decision to obey orders and not back the strikers. They cited with particular pride a public pledge of loyalty made by Daniel's brother, General Humberto Ortega, who heads the armed forces...
...watchword of the Chamorro presidency has been reconciliation, and in that she has enjoyed a measure of success. In April she prodded the Sandinistas and U.S.-backed contras to sign a permanent cease- fire, which was followed two months later by the demobilization of the rebel forces, ending Nicaragua's 10-year civil war. But other aspects of reconciliation continue to elude her. She has not harmonized the competing interests of her supporters and detractors or brought Nicaraguans to accept the bitter pill of economic retrenchment. Perhaps most difficult of all, she has not persuaded extremists of either right...
After 2 1/2 years of the intifadeh they have built a nation but not a state. No matter what happens, they will never be the same. -- Yeltsin's departure could leave Gorbachev in charge of an irrelevant Communist Party. -- Chamorro navigates Nicaragua back from the brink of chaos...