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Weekly Report - 27 April 2004
NICARAGUA: Bolaños empowered to destroy missiles
Nicaragua's national assembly last week voted to give President Enrique Bolaños a free hand to determine the scope and sequencing of an eventual reduction of the SAM-7 arsenal which the US has been pressing hard to achieve. Government sources are now suggesting that Nicaragua might retain only about 500 of the 2,000 missiles it now holds.
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