The World - News from Sept. 5, 1986

The Nicaraguan government, in response to opposition demands, agreed to allow uncensored debate on a proposed constitution that would give the president power to revoke the citizenship of anti-government rebels. A revised draft of the document written by a Sandinista-dominated parliamentary committee would also give the president the power to declare war, apparently without approval of Nicaragua’s National Assembly. Parliamentary debate over the revised version of the constitution will resume next week. The government said the constitutional issues could be debated in the news media without censorship.