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Article: Nicaragua Cancels State of Emergency; Sandinistas Take Steps to Fulfill Peace Plan
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- The Washington Post
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- January 20, 1988
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The Sandinista government today officially ended a state of
emergency that had been in effect for almost six years and abolished
special political tribunals.
Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto put an end to three days of
confusion about the status of the emergency restrictions by reading a
communique to a gathering of diplomats.
President Daniel Ortega had announced that he planned to lift the
state of emergency, which had suspended many constitutional
guarantees, during a Central American summit in Costa Rica last week.
The Sandinista concessions, which were made to comply with a
regional peace plan, came amid intense jockeying by both sides in the
Nicaraguan conflict in anticipation of ...