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- Subject: NEWS:Chamorro Repeats:No More Army Cuts
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- CHAMORRO REPEATS: NO MORE CUTS TO ARMY
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- from El Diario La Prensa
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- edlp 11/6 Nicaragua
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- CHAMORRO: NICARAGUAN ARMY WILL NOT BE REDUCED FURTHER
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- After a meeting with army chief Gen. Humberto Ortega which
- lasted over five hours, Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro
- stated on Thursday, Novebmer 5, that the national army will not
- go through any more reductions. The army has already been
- reduced from 80,000 troops when Chamorro took office in April,
- 1990, to 16,000 currently. Chamorro ordered the elaboration of
- the Armed Forces Law which fixes the time members of the high
- command may serve in their position, and guaranteed respect for
- the institution of the army. She also confirmed civilian control
- of the military. As president, Chamorro is also
- Commander-and-Chief of the Army and assumed the position of
- Minister of Defense, formerly held by Ortega under the Sandinsita
- government.
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- Government Minister Antonio Lacayo, Finance Minister Emilio
- Pereira, Labor Minister Francisco Rosales and Foreign Minister
- Ernesto Leal also attended the meeting with Ortega, along with
- ten members of the army's high command. They discussed the
- situation of armed irregular troops (former contras and former
- Sandinsta Popular Army soldiers) as well as plans for the
- military and the national police to guarantee peaceful and safe
- conditions for the next harvests in the northern part of the
- country.
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- According to the army report, some 22,000 people, who formed
- some 81 criminals bands in the northern and central part of
- Nicaragua, have been disarmed. Forty-thousand rifles, 25,000
- grenades and many kinds of explosives have been confiscated.
- (NOTIMEX 11/6)
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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