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- <text id=93TT0933>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: Who's in Charge Here?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 19
- Who's in Charge Here?
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- <body>
- <p>Chamorro folds, U.N.O. walks, and the Sandinistas run Nicaragua
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- <p> It's not as if she hadn't been warned. President Violeta
- Chamorro's ballot-box victory over the Marxist-dominated
- Sandinistas three years ago, celebrated as a triumph of
- democracy, dimmed somewhat when she retained several former
- adversaries in key positions while continually quarreling with
- her own National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) coalition. Now Madam
- President has added three more Sandinistas to her Cabinet and
- announced a new economic plan with emphasis on social issues
- that appeals to the Sandinistas--plus a 20% devaluation of the
- cordoba and a freeze on government spending. Fed up, U.N.O.
- officially broke with Chamorro, and marched through the streets
- of Managua vowing to drive her from power. When she inaugurated
- the year's first National Assembly session Sunday, U.N.O.
- boycotted, leaving the 39 Sandinista Deputies and eight U.N.O.
- holdouts to form a new majority. The Sandinistas, the largest
- political force in the country, again have de facto control over
- Nicaragua.
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- </body>
- </article>
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