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Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega Saavedra and all the Sandinistas...
...outcome was never in doubt. With roughly half of the presidential and legislative ballots counted, about 63% had gone to the Sandinistas and the front's presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 38. The early results also appeared to guarantee a substantial smattering of representation in a new 90-seat National Assembly for the six other parties on the ballot. The veneer of pluralism, however, will be thin. Four of the parties in the race, including the Sandinistas, were Marxist-Leninist in orientation. Of the three non-Communist parties, one, the Independent Liberals, remained on the ballot even though...
...Sandinista government of Nicaragua, convincing the world that next week's national elections will be meaningful has been an uphill climb. The first major setback came when Arturo Cruz Porras, widely considered to be the strongest opponent facing Sandinista Presidential Candidate Daniel Ortega Saavedra, decided once and for all three weeks ago not to run, claiming that the regime would not allow him to campaign freely. Then the next strongest rival, Virgilio Godoy Reyes of the Independent Liberal Party, announced last week that he too was dropping out. "There are not sufficient guarantees for an electoral process," said...
...Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the day began with a two-hour drive from Managua, the capital, to the ranching town of Juigalpa. As the coordinator of Nicaragua's ruling junta, Ortega presided over a town meeting in the local movie theater. Then, as the Sandinista party candidate for President in the Nov. 4 elections, he led a parade of jubilant supporters through the town's narrow streets. Dressed in his customary army fatigues, Ortega acted like the seasoned politico, waving to onlookers, kissing babies and savoring the cheers of "De Frente! De Frente! Daniel por Presidente!" (Forward! Forward! Daniel...
Standing awkwardly behind a microphone in a new suit and tie, he looked like a timid substitute teacher or possibly a computer whiz before a job interview -anything but what he really was: the uncompromising leader of Nicaragua's pro-Marxist Sandinista regime. Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who is running in his government's first presidential elections on Nov. 4, spent the past two weeks stumping across the U.S. Accompanied by his wife and an entourage of eleven Nicaraguan officials and ten Secret Service men, Ortega was attempting to woo Americans away from President Reagan's anti...