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Ortega claims
Sandinista win
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)
— Daniel Ortega, leader of the
leftist Sandinista government
and th»party's presidential can
didate, claimed victory Monday
in presidential elections and
said the party is leading by “an
ample majority and an ample
margin.”
“This has been a vote for
peace,” Ortega told a cheering,
dancing crowd of thousands in
Managua’s Plaza of Heroes and
Martyrs on Sunday night. “We
feel very contented and have a
great confidence in the future.”
Before any of the votes from
Sunday’s election had been
tabulated, the government
controlled newspaper Barricada
proclaimed “Victory for San
dino in Free Elections” in a
banner headline Monday
morning.
At midmorning Monday, the
Supreme Electoral Council said
that with votes from 16 percent
of the polling places counted,
Ortega was leading with 68.1
percent of the vote. The re
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mainder was split among can
didates of five small opposition
parties.
Despite a slow count, the lef
tist Sandinista government an
nounced a higher election tur
nout than expected and called it
"a resounding ‘no’ to reaction
and imperialism.”
Mariano Fiallos, president of
the Supreme Electoral Council,
said early returns indicated a
turnout of 82 percent, slightly
higher than the 80 percent San
dinista officials had predicted
would go to the polls.
“The election has been a
triumph of the Nicaraguan peo
ple,” declared Fiallos. “The
people have responded more
than satisfactorily.”
The Sandinistas had counted
on a massive turnout to counter
charges that the election would
be, as President Ronald Reagan
suggested, ‘‘a Soviet-style
sham” — that is, conducted
without meaningful opposition
after a campaign that was less
than open.
In Washington D.C., the State
Department denounced
Nicaragua’s election results as a
“farce” because the Sandinistas
had no credible opposition.
Spokesman John Hughes said
the Nicaraguan people were not
allowed to participate in “any
real sense of the word. The San
dinista electoral farce, without
any meaningful political op
position, leaves the situation
essentially unchanged.”
The country’s first election in
a decade was conducted with
few problems, and even critics
acknowledged that the voting
process itself appeared to be
fair.
“The actual voting seems to
be a fine, workable system,”
said one Western diplomat,
speaking on condition he not be
identified. “But the things
leading up to the election, those
are the sort of things that cast
doubt.”
Fiallos said 11 of the coun
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try’s 3,892 polling places had to
be closed because of attacks by
the guerrillas who have been
fighting the Sandinista govern
ment for more than two years.
He said all of the attacks were
near Nicaragua’s border with
Honduras, nine in the nor
theastern part of the country
and two in the northwest.
The Electoral Council said
percentages in voting for the na
tional assembly were running at
about the same percentage in
favor of the Sandinistas as those
for president.
Ortega told a news conference
in Managua: “We take for a fact
the victory of the FSLN in these
elections.” He used the initials
of the ruling Sandinista Na
tional Liberation Front.
The main opposition coali
tion boycotted the election,
complaining of harassment and
restrictions on campaigning
and press coverage. In addition
to the Sandinistas, five minor
parties took part in the election.
The regime’s best-known op
ponent, Arturo Jose Cruz, said
the election was merely “a
referendum to consolidate the
Sandinista front in power.”
Cruz, who heads a coalition
of four centrist political parties,
two labor unions and the coun
try’s most influential organiza
tion of businessmen, returned
to Managua from Washington
on Sunday night.
Although nominated by his
coalition, Cruz refused to
register his presidential can
didacy, saying the Sandinistas
had stacked the deck against an
open, fair election by imposing
restrictions on campaigning,
and press coverage. The govern
ment insisted that policy was
necessary in the face of continu
ing U.S. “aggression” through
its support of anti-Sandinista
rebels.
In addition to a president,
voters elected a vice president
and 90 members of a new na
tional assembly, all for six-year
terms. They will take office on
Jan. 10.
Campaign *84:
End of the trail
President Ronald Reagan and
Walter Mondale played out the
final scenes Monday of a year
long campaign drama, the
president saying his work in
Washington has “only just
begun” and the Democratic
challenger charging that if vic
torious, Republicans would
claim a “historic mandate” to
raise taxes and send combat
troops to Central America.
The president, ending his
final campaign with a nostalgic
tour of California, said the con
servative “prairie fire” he pro
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mised to ignite two decades ago
had now swept the nation.
*it was the second American
Revolution, and it’s only just
begun," he said. Listing his
goals for a second term, he said,
"No. 1 of all is peace, disarma
ment and the reduction of world
nuclear weapons.”
His challenger implored a
crowd in Los Angeles to pro
vide the votes for "the biggest
upset ever. . . We can prove that
a president who insults our in
telligence every day will pay
the price on Election Day,” he
said.
The polls showed Mondale
gaining in the campaign's final
hours, but despite that, and for
all the crowds he drew along his
way, he trailed Reagan by
runaway margins in nearly
every reckoning save his own.
"We're gonna win." he
claimed, with vice presidential
nominee Geraldine Ferraro vir
tually the only voice seconding
him.
A political pioneer. Ferraro
was in the final hours of her
campaign, as well, racing from
Ohio to Pennsylvania to New
Jersey to New York with her
message: "Stand up and fight
for Fritz Mondale.”
Vice Pres. George Bush wrap
ped up his 37,000-mile cam
paign for a second term with a
flying tour of Texas, where he
sought to help GOP congres- .
sional candidates.
"Keep America on the move.
Help us keep the peace. Help us
keep the prosperity,” he said,
his voice hoarse from weeks of
campaigning.
The race for the White House
was the main event by far, but
the political parties were pour
ing millions of dollars, as well,
into the race for 33 Senate seats
and a new 435-member House
of Representatives. In 13 states
an election for governor was on
the ballot, as well.
Democrats looked for gains of
two or three seats in the Senate,
not enough to regain control
after four years of a Republican
majority.
In the House, the Republicans
conceded they could not crack
the numerical majority held by
Democrats. But they aimed fora
pickup of 25 seats or so that
they said would remake the
coalition with conservative
Democrats that handed the
president his greatest legislative
triumphs of 1981.
in Oregon, political can
didates wrapped up their cam
paigns Monday, but party
workers involved in get-out-the
vote efforts were gearing up for
one of the most comprehensive
attempts in state history to bring
voters to the polls.
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