University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 23, 1990
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He was also a member of LASA's first monitoring commission, sent to Nicaragua during the 1984 election, and of commissions sent to 1988 elections in Guatemala and 1999 elections in Paraguay, he said.
"The other members of the commission are academicians representing different disciplines from institutions such as MIT, Northwestern University, Ohio University in Athens and DePaul University in Chicago," he said.
LASA's commission will focus on issues that concern the electoral process in the nine campaign districts in Nicaragua, he said.
Each observer will monitor the electoral process in a certain district, said Stamifer, who will observe the district of Leon on the Pacific coast, 60 miles northwest of Nicaragua's capital, Managua.
Stansifer said LASA was interested in Nieargagun progress toward democracy. The election must be orderly and stable to ensure the legitimacy of the country's future government.
The day after the election, LASA observers will issue press releases about the election in each district. They later will draft complete reports that will be released to the association's 3,000 members.
International attention
Stansifer said the elections would be the first municipal elections held in Nicaragua and one of the most observed in history.
"About 4,000 international observers will cover some 4.394 electoral precincts." he said
U. S. groups observing Nicaragua's elections will include the Congress of Freely Elected Presidents led by former president Jimmy Carter, Freedom House, the Center for Democracy and the Committee for Electoral Assistance and Promotion, according to a Feb. 7 editorial in the Times of the Americas.
Stanisier said the European and Canadian parliaments would send observers, as would the United Nations and UNESCO.
Most groups have been monitoring Nicaragua since voter registration in October. That was the same month the U.S. Senate approved President Bush's proposal for a $9 million package to help the opposition of President
Mariano Fiallos, left, and Charles Stansler are both Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
The National Opposition Union (UNO), a coalition of 14 parties ranging from Communist to conservative, is led by presidential candidate Viola Barries de Chamero, publisher of the opposition newspaper La Prensa.
According to the Times of the Americas editorial, "the United States has accused the Sandinista government in Managua of a 'striking pattern of Sandinista intimidation, harassment of the opposition and violence,' raising the question of 'whether there can be truly free and fair
elections in Nicaragua.' "
However, Stansifer said every indication was that electoral participation and interest would be high.
"We are not expecting trouble for the coming elections," Stansifer said. "This is a measure of the success of Mr. Mariano Fiallos, head of Nicaragua's Supreme Election Council."
Mariano Fiallos
Fiallos, who in 1968 earned a doctorate in political
science from KU, was rector of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in Managua. On April 2, 1984, Nicaragua's Supreme Court appointed him president of a three-member election council to supervise that year's elections, the first held under the Sandinista government.
U. S. groups observing Nicaragua's elections will include the Congress of Freely Elected Presidents led by former president Jimmy Carter, Freedom House, the Center for Democracy and the Committee for Electoral Assistance and Promotion. Most groups have been monitoring Nicaragua since voter registration in October.
In 1984, Stansifer invited Fiallo, 56, to fill KU's Rose Morgan Professorship in the department of political science and the Center for Latin American Studies for Spring 1985. Stansifer said the move was intended "to take him from the Nicaraguan political fire."
However, KU administrators endorsed Fiallo's appointment, and he came for one semester to teach International Relations of Central America and the Caribbean.
Some KU faculty and students opposed Fiallo's appointment, saying it was "comparable to having appointed a member of a Nazi puppet government to a German state during the late 1930s," according to a 1984 Kanan report.
Robert Tomasek, professor of political science who met Flailos in 1985 at KU, said Flailos was balanced in his teaching and was qualified for the presidency of the Nicaraguan electoral council.
"I would place him as an idealist and as a moderate," Tomasek said. "He's not what I would call an activist or a militant."
In 1884, Ivan Agullar, also a Nicaraguan, earned a bachelor's degree in personnel administration from KU. Agullar, a 30-year-old native from Leon, is an FSLN candidate for that city's council.
Like Stansifer and Fiallo, Aguilar will put the KU touch to Nicaragua's elections Sunday
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