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- GRAPEVINE, Page 30HASTA LA VISTA, GENERAL SANDINISTA
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- VIOLETA BARRIOS DE CHAMORRO may be President of
- Nicaragua, but Daniel Ortega's defeated Marxist party still
- controls the Sandinista Popular Army. Now a group of prominent
- Nicaraguans calling themselves the "Civilist Movement" are
- working quietly to remove this Sword of Damocles by abolishing
- the army altogether. Its peace-keeping functions would be turned
- over to the national police force, which is less political. The
- Civilist Movement wants to offer citizens a referendum on the
- issue, which war-weary citizens would be likely to approve in
- an honest election. After all, neighboring Costa Rica has got
- by without an army since 1948.
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