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- <text id=91TT2361>
- <title>
- Oct. 21, 1991: Hasta La Vista, General Sandinista
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 21, 1991 Sex, Lies & Politics
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 30
- Hasta La Vista, General Sandinista
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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