Word: managua
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Last week Central American Airlines, owned partly by former Sandinista officials, inaugurated service between Managua and Miami, its rented Boeing 727 less than half-filled with passengers lured by a bargain $275 round-trip fare. Said CAAL director Herty Lewites, the former Minister of Tourism: "I want to be the richest man in Nicaragua." Backed by $1.75 million from a Nicaraguan-born millionaire living in Greece, CAAL hopes its thrice-weekly flights can undercut state-owned Aeronica, which charges...
...further their cooperation, the Soviets asked that Washington respond favorably when the Sandinistas took positive steps. "The more evidence Managua sees that the U.S. is willing to coexist with them after the elections, assuming they win," said Pavlov, "the easier it will be to create a free and fair election." On Aug. 4, the Sandinistas signed an accord with the democratic opposition calling for the disbanding of the contras and general elections in February 1990. On Aug. 7, in the tortured syntax that defines diplomatese, Baker said publicly the U.S. was "very pleased with the steps that Nicaragua has taken...
...pattern began to form. The Soviets posed a number of tests for the U.S., and Washington passed most of them. Pavlov argued that Moscow's ability to stem the flow of weapons to Central America depended on Soviet confidence that the military threat to Managua was lessening. In response, Aronson described as a concession the scaling back of U.S. maneuvers in Honduras. He cited the cutoff of humanitarian assistance to a contra commander who had independently attacked a Sandinista outpost in violation of the Bipartisan Accord's ban on offensive operations. He mentioned the closing of the contras' political office...
...Sandinistas, in effect, repudiated the F.M.L.N. The declaration Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega signed at San Isidro called for the Salvadoran guerrillas to "immediately and effectively cease hostilities and join the process of dialogue." The document also expressed Ortega's support of Alfredo Cristiani's Salvadoran government as democratic, something Managua had previously never conceded. "We choked hard on that one," says a former Ortega adviser. "Of course we didn't believe it, but our backs were against the wall. It seemed that the whole world was down on us. Even the Soviets had said -- in what for them...
...everything but the nails on which pictures once hung. The new Minister of Communications searched his premises in vain for accounting ledgers; he did discover a contract for the purchase of 22 new Toyotas, for $392,000, all apparently driven off by army members. The incoming mayor of Managua learned that $52,192.53 was distributed as bonuses to six employees, some of whom quit promptly when he took office. The pilfering has been so blatant that ex-President Daniel Ortega does not even try to deny it: "What is being called plundering was nothing more than a decision to benefit...