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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate over Central America has centered on how to bring democracy to the region. The Reagan administration claims to be trying to do just that; its critics say that the means subvert the ends. But if we remember Vietnam, it may just be that Reagan administration opponents have been too generous. The chaos and destruction which have enveloped Central America may not be the sad costs of a misguided effort on behalf of freedom. Instead, they may be the result of a cold and calculating policy that holds that weak neighbors make good neighbors...
...slide of El Salvador into economic turmoil and all-out civil war. Duarte received hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. economic and military aid, supposedly to shore up the government economically and politically. This money successfully funded Duarte's bombing of the FMLN/FDR-held countryside, but failed miserably to bring any sort of economic stability to his country...
Nunn has wisely downplayed the London theme that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are morally -- or amorally -- equivalent. He focuses instead on three people who have paid a huge emotional price for success, only to realize that glory does not bring contentment: an American (Philip Casnoff) who has reached ! the world chess finals; his Soviet counterpart (David Carroll); and the American's adviser and erstwhile bedmate (Judy Kuhn), who falls in love with the Soviet. Theirs is not a charming Ninotchka-style romance: the CIA and the KGB hover on the periphery, exploiting the players and the game. Offsetting...
...more to bring about this flavorful revolution than Robert Rosellini, 42, a fourth-generation restaurateur who pioneered the new cuisine 14 years ago in the Other Place -- so named to differentiate it from his family's well-known Italian restaurant, Rosellini's Four-10. "I wanted to do as the French did," says Rosellini, "and apply their careful cooking techniques and sensibilities to our fresh, native products...
...evening and melted away peaceably. Shouting erupted upstream when the returning Mexicans found that their boatman had tied up the rowboat on the far side of the river and gone to bed. The problem was resolved when a young man rolled up his trousers and waded across to bring the boat back to the U.S. side. By 1:30 a.m. there were no human sounds at Lajitas, only the quiet gurgle of the Rio Grande under the moonlight, dividing two nations, undisturbed...