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...stop in Washington after the European trip, Duarte proved so persuasive that Congress a few weeks later approved $70 million in military aid and $135 million in economic assistance for his country. By marshaling support from the U.S., Western Europe and democratic countries in Latin America, Duarte hopes to bolster his standing at home and to attract enough foreign aid to make his country's economy self-supporting by the end of his term...
William E. Bolster...
Some industry experts believe that OPEC'S crisis will prompt an emergency meeting of the group in September or October. In the meantime, the Saudis may try to bolster prices by announcing that they will cut back production as soon as they have paid for the planes. Said John Lichtblau, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation: "There is still a possibility they can correct the situation by substantially reducing their output. But it is difficult to recontrol prices once they start running away." -By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Timothy Loughran/New York
Assuming the critical reports do not have the calamitous effect of generating sentiment for still greater defense funds--to bolster conventional, along with nuclear forces--concern over military readiness could help stem the growth of the nuclear aresenal. The danger is that greater "preparedness" could mushroom into a dangerous build-up in conventional forces, but in general, any break on the nuclear effort would be a welcome change...
...contras, whose hit-and-run operations along its borders have served only to inflame the threat of Nicaraguan retaliation. At the U.S.-run training camp in Trujillo, meanwhile, the Americans have been graduating twice as many soldiers from neighboring El Salvador as they have Hondurans, in an effort to bolster that country's fight against the rebels. That rankles many Honduran officials, who recall the 1969 war between the two countries and still believe, as an opposition leader puts it, that "once El Salvador settles its internal problem, it will set its sights on us again." In the past...