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Overnight President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 85, whom Ivorians had been & conditioned to regard in reverential terms since he took power at independence in 1960, became an object of vilification. Step by step, the government gave ground. Houphouet-Boigny announced that he would relinquish leadership of the party at its congress later this month. Next the tax hikes were scrapped, and finally, two weeks ago, opposition parties were legalized...
With the score knotted, 0-0, the Turtles picked up two unearned runs off Crimson starter Nancy Sparrow. Two hits, two errors and two passed balls were enough to give Hofstra a lead it would never relinquish...
...question has hovered menacingly since Violeta Chamorro's upset win last February in Nicaragua's presidential elections: Would the defeated Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) relinquish control of the army and police force that kept it in power for ten years...
This is an excellent suggestion. But what if the members want the building returned to them after they have thawed out? Future generations of women will have become very attached to the building over the span of 1000 years and will not want to relinquish it. We must do something more permanent...
...victory was the easy part. A harder question is whether the politically unseasoned Chamorro, 60, is prepared to guide bankrupt Nicaragua through the difficult transition from a revolutionary state to a functioning multiparty democracy. The answer will hinge largely on whether the Sandinistas live up to their promises to relinquish power peacefully after ten years of rule largely by proclamation, military muscle and caprice. Given Nicaragua's history of never managing a change of government without bloodshed, the odds seem stacked against Chamorro. Adding to her problems is the fractious 14- party coalition, ranging ideologically from conservative to Communist, that...