European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday february 22. 1990 iced nistas betting youths will respond to sex Appeal Black history Mont i Mana a. Nicaragua a Yea de Gad snapped his i fingers and plopped his in Bacr Clad feet on the table race sneaker s laces arc electric Green. Music he claimed. The Campaign \ needed Young music on the Wall hangs Glossy poster showing two pairs of naked thighs pressed Louth or. Jeans and a Rose crust cd on the floor. \ it s Beautiful the firm time when you do it Witry reads the Coy slogan. Personally Delgado does t like the poster. The Guy s legs Are too he said. Who is this fast talking follow in the Blackt shirt n i the tight jeans eating. Nipped Cream cheese with his fingers a hip advertising executive a rising record pro Ducer not quite. Delgado. 28. Is Secretary general of the sandinista youth part of the leftist party that has ruled Nicaragua for More than a decade. He is one of the keys to president Daniel Ortega s Effort to beat the unite National opposition led by Violela Barrios do Cha Morro. Clearly things have changed since the Days when the sandinista you motto was a dreary marxist study. Defend. Of the motto is now plug into the and the Vil is pure sex. The youth vote will be a critical Factor in Suntay s general election. A third of the 1.7 million Reg Rcd voters Are Between the Ages of 16 and 25. Delgado is a Mastermind of the Campaign if cd at Selling the Sandim Slas As the fun party the a of the future the hip place to be. It s a tall Job in a country left shabby and littered by War a . Embargo and a devastating Econe Frinic crisis. But Delgado is certain that the Sandin sub have the youth vote wrapped up. Membership in the sandinista to peo ple Between the Ages of 15 and 30. Hat doubled to 50.000 in Lite past two months he said. Delgado rejected the idea that the Fidi Islas have shamelessly adopted one of the crasser advertising concepts of their capitalist Nemesis sex subs. It s a sandinista he sap. Laughing. The poster with the naked legs am the double in Tendro message for first time Votca is just one of a series of posters featuring amorous couples in the Unish Orion cd Campaign. The group has also sponsored Beauty contests the the sandinista Ca Beautiful the first Lime lists were Del Ido said kissing contests lances parties and even a Valentine s Day rally. Sandinista Campaign head quarters bustles with Young workers in brightly coloured t shirts bearing pictures of or Tega and other candidates. Young people Wear Sand Nisla headbands sandinista tank tops and sandinista baseball Caps. They Light up with sandinista lighters and tap their toes to sandinista tunes in Costco style the reggae music from Nicara Gua s Atlantic coast. The Slick Campaign is no Hil or miss affair. Delgado said the Sandi Nisla youth prepared by polling Young people on their likes and dislikes their worries and Hopes. The poll even identified the colors they found most appealing. Delgado said flourishing an armful of t shirts in sky Blue Brilliant Green Black and Gray to demonstrate his Point. Fluorescent colors he exclaimed. They love fluorescent colors the study showed that nicaraguan teen agers arc a lot like teen agers everywhere in Many ways. They Are vain and rebellious they Are inter ested in sex and having fun their heroes and role models Are athletes and their concerns however reflect the troubled reality if this politically divided and economically crippled nation of 3.5 million the War. The draft finding a Job. Get Fig a decent education and figuring out How ton Avoca Good time in a country where the inflation rate was 1,300 percent last message does t dwell on this dreary daily of Felly. Everything will be better the main Campai slogan sandinista have been in Power since the 1979 revolution rat toppled the Somoza family dictatorship. The 16-ar-Olds who will be first Lime voters Sun Day were of try 5 years old when the sandinista marched Triune chantly into Managua. Ortega 44, is the Only pics Iafet they have known. It is Clear to Habshe sandinista Effort to lure the youth vote has far outs upped that of its main challenger the United National opposition. Chamorro utto s presidential candidate is a White haired and autocratic widow of 60 whose image contrasts sharply la that of were Nimori Jimial her Campaign would bring in Gloria est clan and the Miami sound machine but it did t happen. Before Sec of her rallies Young women danced to a tropical cat us it could nol equal the Sandi nista brio and that s not it the Uno is Selling anyway. In poster reads. It s Len you do it with Stevie w under born in 19so at Saginaw began recording songs for 1963. He won numerous also collected an Academy just called to say i love picture woman in into the songwriters mall o is another in a series of pal Scott appearing in the s month. Ich., Stevie wonder motown records in Rammy awards and Ward for writing "1 of for he motion Onder was inducted Fame in 1982. This nos by spec. James is and stripes this cuban gets Down to or Dos fac is about big macs is. Comr nun so Algiers. Algeria am cubans would rather cat grass than Mcdonald so hamburgers to preserve the purity of their communist revolution. Cuban Ambas Sador Liscs Estrada Jis Caille was quoted As saying t tuesday. We Don t have Mcdonald s in Cuba but nobody s Stan ing Lescaille Yas quoted As saying in tuesday s editions of the daily newspaper horizons. Well eat grass if necessary to defend our Lescaille appeared to be referring to the recent open ing of a Mcdonald s restaurant in Moscow. The Ham Burger chains pig macs and Fries were Well received by muscovite relations Between Cuba and the soviet Union have grown strained in recent months As president Fidel Castro insists on retaining the hard line communism Yec Ted by soviet Leader Mikhail preach cd. Perestroika or Gorbachev s pro Tram of restructuring soviet political and economic Floc cannot be applied in All Lescaille loll a newspaper. The problem with the .s.r. I soft with the communist party or the government bup Ith the forces that that have sprung up along with plot Stroika Les Caille was quoted As saying. The cuban ambassador said the possibility existed Moscow would renege on its Aid agreement w Ith the Castro government in 1990. But that so for All pledges had been fulfilled the paper reported. Lescaille said the government enjoys Good relations with China and praised the late communist part chairman Mao tse Tung As a great Leader the news paper said. World today protesters police clash at taiwanese parliament Taipei Taiwan a Rock hurling protesters demanding greater democracy fought club wielding riot police tuesday in a Battle around the legislative building and at least nine people were reported injured. The clash broke out after 1,000 demonstrators mostly from the opposition democratic progressive party harassed aging lawmakers of the ruling nation Alist party As they tried to enter the building to elect a new parliamentary speaker. The demonstrators demanded that the politicians who last faced election on the chinese Mainland More than four decades ago. Be replaced by Taiwan elected lawmakers. Riot police numbering More than 2.000, swung clubs and Shields to break up the protesters who fought Back with rocks and placards. Police arrested three men blood streaming Down their faces and later released them. Liege May sell Picasso to keep museums open Liege Belgium a the debt Ridden City of Liege is considering the Sale of a Picasso masterpiece to keep its museums open a City official said tuesday. Either we sell this Picasso or we have to close dozen museums for Lack of funds Liege s cultural Alderman. Hector Mayotte. Told the daily Het Clang Van Limburg. The City Council Hopes to make $57 million from the Sale of the 1903 painting of the Soler family a masterpiece of Picasso s Blue period. Last year. Les Nocks de Pierrette another paint ing from the same period fetched Only slightly less to set a record for a Picasso painting. The Industrial cite of 200,000 on the River Meuse has a debt equating $2 billion but Mayotte Hopes the Sale will be used for debt repayments. The City Council will make a final decision on the Sale next month
