Word: nicaragua
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...Southeast Asia and Central America, those traditional cockpits of superpower rivalry might as well be on the dark side of the moon. There is little regret in Moscow at having lost Nicaragua because few here ever felt they had it in the first place. Not even the famous German question generates much passion. As rapidly as the two Germanys are coming together, the U.S.S.R. is coming apart even faster...
...expect to see them anytime soon. Nicaragua's Chamorro takes a chance and retains a Sandinista. Mongolia tries perestroika in slow motion...
Chamorro demonstrated diplomatic agility with the Sandinistas as well. In negotiating the transfer of power, the outgoing government's paramount concern was maintaining the integrity of the Sandinista army, considered to be the guarantor of Nicaragua's revolutionary progress. Chamorro worked out an agreement whereby the army will not be disbanded, but her government can reduce its size and determine how it can be used. She faced down demands that Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel's brother, keep his post as army commander...
...task of rebuilding the shattered country makes Chamorro's advisers optimistic that the cease-fire will hold. Says Gilberto Cuadra, president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise: "Neither the army nor the contras have a future in this country." But cease-fires have been called before in Nicaragua -- and have failed. Chamorro must still make this one stick...
...West responds may shape its relations with the U.S.S.R. and Gorbachev's future. -- Nicaragua's Chamorro brokers a cease-fire. Will it stick...