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...courted by Reagan as a strategic ally in the anti-Communist crusade. Last year Administration officials proposed the resumption of arms sales to Argentina, which, like the U.S., is supporting the military campaign of El Salvador's government against leftist guerrillas. Some Latin American experts regarded this friendly abrazo as naive and misguided. Argued Johns Hopkins University Professor Riordan Roett: "The idea of a U.S. condominium of interest with the Argentine military to thwart revolution was a terrible one. Its demise is no loss...
...combat boots, several hundred presidential guardsmen stood on the steaming runway all day to greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair stood at attention as each one's national anthem was played and howitzers blasted an ear-splitting salute...
...island's most prominent political family, had made some significant contributions to Jamaica: a minimum wage, free education, equal pay for women, newly built health centers and 40,000 units of low-income housing. But endemic poverty remained, and critics charged his administration with woeful mismanagement. His warm abrazo for Fidel Castro frightened the middle class as well as foreign investors. Soon Jamaica found itself with a severe brain drain and an inability to finance the increased cost of oil imports...
...abrazo, of course, does not clinch the treaty, which faces a months-long scrap in the U.S. Senate and a plebiscite in Panama as well. But as last week's events sharply dramatized, Carter is going to use all his presidential resources to win approval of the treaty. He needs it to vindicate his foreign policy, which has run into snags in the Middle East, in the Far East and in the SALT talks. He also wants to emphasize that he is not solely preoccupied with East-West problems, but gives considerable weight to the crucial relationship between developed...
...wanted to bring the fire of Guernica to the one who had provoked it," he explains. "I wanted to give him a fiery abrazo." Elosegi missed his target and paid for his act with 17 days in a coma and 30 months in jail. One of the organizers of the anniversary remembrances, he is calmer today about the raid but no less committed. "Guernica was an obsession with me," he says. It is an obsession shared by hundreds of Guernica's inhabitants and countless other Spaniards as well...