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- <text id=90TT1362>
- <title>
- May 28, 1990: World Notes:Nicaragua
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 39
- World Notes
- NICARAGUA
- Strike Force
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The day he conceded the election in Nicaragua's presidential
- vote last February, Daniel Ortega promised supporters that his
- Sandinista party would "rule from below." Last week Nicaraguans
- got a taste of what that means, and President Violeta Chamorro
- learned that even out of office, the Sandinistas are far from
- powerless.
- </p>
- <p> Encouraged by leaders of the Sandinista National Liberation
- Front (FSLN), nearly half the country's 150,000 government
- employees staged strikes for salary increases of 200% and, more
- important, job security. When Chamorro took office last month,
- she suspended a Sandinista-passed law that prohibits firing
- government workers, most of whom are FSLN supporters. With
- public buses idle and the airport closed, the government gave
- way by Thursday, agreeing to a 100% pay hike and promising not
- to dismiss anyone. Said union leader Lucio Jimenez: "I hope
- the government learned something from this."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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