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...radio and TV stations. As it chronicled the revolution's mounting failures, the daily, now edited by Chamorro's son, Pedro Joaquín Jr., 30, once more found itself the principal target of a regime that does not tolerate dissent. Chamorro's widow Violeta, an original member of the revolutionary government, resigned in March 1980, offering reasons of health, to concentrate on helping her son with the paper. One month later, La Prensa was paralyzed by a Sandinista-induced labor dispute that ended only when Pedro Joaquín's uncle Xavier, a staunch supporter...
...legislature with Sandinistas. When the Sandinistas, having long since deferred plans for free elections in Nicaragua, called for free elections in El Salvador, Chamorro acidly asked: "If Salvadorans can vote, why not us?" After the latest shutdown earlier this month, La Prensa returned with a blistering editorial written by Violeta Chamorro...
...prosecutor of Somocist trials, the political secretary of the FSLN in Leon, and the National Secretary of Foreign Relations--of the 46 representatives on the National Council of State, less than 25 per cent are women. And the five-person ruling junta has not had a woman member since Violeta Barrios de Chamorro resigned last April...
...Directorate. Daniel was named by Sandinistas as their representative on the five-member "temporary government" selected last week by the rebels. The others: Moises Hassan Morales, leader of the Sandinistas' political arm, the National Patriotic Front; Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a businessman jailed by Somoza for leading a strike; Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, widow of the slain editor of the opposition newspaper La Prensa; and Sergio Ramírez Mercado, former secretary of the Central American University in Costa Rica...
Married. Jess Thomas, 46, Wagnerian heldentenor of the Metropolitan Opera, and Argentine Publishing Heiress Violeta Rios, 29, who fell in love with Thomas' Tristan three years ago and pursued him for months, tossing roses onto the stage after his performances, until a mutual acquaintance introduced them; both for the second time; in Tiburon, Calif...