World IN BRIEF : NICARAGUA : U.S. Funds to Pay for Poll Monitors
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The Sandinista government has agreed to immediately transfer $1.5 million in U.S. funds tied up in Nicaragua’s Central Bank to an institute that will train opposition poll watchers for the Feb. 25 elections. Former President Jimmy Carter, who mediated the talks in Managua, said that President Daniel Ortega also promised to protect against intimidation of poll watchers and to let a dozen U.S. lawmakers observe the elections.
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