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Even if Chamorro wins, many Nicaraguans doubt that the Sandinistas would willingly relinquish power to her, especially control of the 70,000-member armed forces, which is called the Sandinista People's Army and is the main guarantor of the F.S.L.N.'s power. Chamorro favors drastically reducing the army's size. If Ortega should win in a fair election, the U.S. would be under pressure to normalize relations with Managua or at the very least to lift the economic boycott imposed in 1985. For now, the Bush Administration is taking a tough stance, promising to improve relations with the Sandinistas...
...opening match Harvard woke up in time to defeat Vassar. The first game was highlighted by the strong play of Kim. The outside hitter served for five straight points, giving the Crimson a lead which it never would relinquish...
...called multiracial state does not denote racial integration but a system in which each race will have its own rights and freedoms -- one of those being the right to live in a white enclave. Just as much as his hard- line brethren, De Klerk is loath to relinquish what may be the world's most comfortable way of life. That, as much as anything else, is what animates the white position...
Port-au-Prince, meanwhile, was stretched tight with tension last week. During one rumor-filled afternoon, the entire city closed down. Some Haitians wondered whether Avril was trying to pre-empt a revolution in the Palace Guard. Others were certain that Avril never intended to relinquish the presidency in the first place, and was consolidating his power for a long rule. But Avril's grip over his country is not as strong as that of Haiti's greatest dictator, Papa Doc Duvalier, and by week's end the President, showing signs of succumbing to diplomatic and internal pressure, renewed...
...into the papal embassy on Christmas Eve, such hospitality was hardly appropriate. The fugitive strongman was agitated, pacing the nunciature's marble floors like a caged tiger. The four aides who accompanied him were carrying suspicious vials of injectable liquids and an assortment of guns. Laboa demanded that Noriega relinquish the weapons. At first he refused, but then he apparently complied -- although a submachine gun was later found under the bed in his room at the nunciature...