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...another blow to the junta's prestige came after police closed the offices of the weekly Buenos Aires magazine La Semana. The offense: publishing an article critical of Captain Alfredo Astiz, the officer who surrendered the Argentine garrison on South Georgia to the British and who was accused of torture and murder after infiltrating the human rights movement during the "dirty war" in 1977. La Semana's editor, Jorge Fontevecchia, successfully sought asylum in Venezuela last week. Shortly thereafter, however, a federal court judge ruled that there was nothing offensive in the article and ordered the junta...
...Washington's latest diplomatic ploy go precisely as planned. A few weeks ago, State Department officials decided to try to persuade the government of Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña to advance the elections scheduled for March 1984. They hoped that the announcement would enhance their case for continued military aid, while blunting any call by the Pope for a negotiated settlement. Richard Stone, a former Democratic Senator from Florida who was appointed special ambassador for "public diplomacy" earlier this year, handled the task. Accompanied by two National Security Council staffers, Stone flew to San Salvador two weeks...
...complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole lot worse." By some accounts, Garcia may be ousted relatively soon by El Salvador's Provisional President, Alvaro Alfredo Magaña. Among other changes that may be necessary are a further increase in U.S. military aid and a boost in the number of U.S. military advisers in the country from the current 40 or so. Insists U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton: "The Salvadoran army today, compared to what...
Several major singers, among them Mirella Freni, Joan Sutherland, Von Stade and Alfredo Kraus, are too rarely heard at the Met, although all four are appearing this season. And British Soprano Margaret Price, who sings in the major international houses, has never sung there. Somewhat ingenuously, Levine blames their absence partly on the Met's distance from Europe. Even in the Concorde age, he contends, they prefer to work closer to home, no more than a couple of hours' flight from Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra or Milan's La Scala, rather than take...
...some 30,000 Salvadoran civilians and at least six Americans over the past three years. The State Department said that the Hinton talk, which had been cleared in advance, represented a brief change in tactics but not in policy. Officials explained that since the election of Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magana last April, the U.S. has repeatedly told El Salvador's leaders that continued U.S. aid depended on the fulfillment of three conditions: 1) an improvement in the human rights record, 2) a continuation of the U.S.-backed land reform begun in 1980 and 3) a return to full...