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Early last week there were disturbing signs that the cease-fire might never come to pass. In one of his final acts as Nicaragua's President, Daniel Ortega Saavedra demanded that the contras disarm before Chamorro's inauguration this week and suggested that failure to cooperate might jeopardize the peaceful transfer of power. Asked if the inauguration would take place as scheduled, he answered, "We are studying that. We are very close to peace and very close to war." The contra contingent that arrived in Managua the next day for cease- fire negotiations fanned the tension by vowing to avoid...
...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...
Daniel Ortega Saavedra could not disagree more. "If we don't want the storm of civil war and insurrection to sweep us away, then the contras must disarm," he said last week. While initially gracious in defeat, the Sandinista leader has since turned recalcitrant. Besides demanding that the contras demobilize immediately, Ortega & Co. have publicly insisted on the Sandinistas' retaining control of the 70,000-member army and the Interior Ministry even after the new government is sworn in April 25. In its last days, the defeated regime is also moving to enact sweeping laws that would turn public property...
...largest and best-organized political party in the country, and some still see them as social reformers. Bush's habitual low-key reaction to stunning change was welcome last week, in contrast to years of shrill U.S. rhetoric. Administration officials were publicly gracious to outgoing President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, careful to praise his commitment to fair elections and his apparent reasonableness -- so far -- in defeat...
...President-elect was called to the telephone in her elegant home Monday night just as the guard at the front door admitted a visitor. On the line was Ronald Reagan. In the foyer was Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Both wanted to congratulate Violeta Chamorro on her stunning upset, though clearly Reagan was the happier of the two. With the charm and diplomacy bred by her patrician upbringing, Chamorro told Reagan that she would have to call him back. Then she turned and embraced the Sandinista chief...