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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- DEPARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW. Members of Violeta
- Chamorro's new government in Nicaragua keep finding little
- surprises bequeathed to them by the defeated Sandinistas. Some
- offices have been stripped of everything but the nails on which
- pictures once hung. The new Minister of Communications searched
- his premises in vain for accounting ledgers; he did discover
- a contract for the purchase of 22 new Toyotas, for $392,000,
- all apparently driven off by army members. The incoming mayor
- of Managua learned that $52,192.53 was distributed as bonuses
- to six employees, some of whom quit promptly when he took
- office. The pilfering has been so blatant that ex-President
- Daniel Ortega does not even try to deny it: "What is being
- called plundering was nothing more than a decision to benefit
- the people."
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