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...F.M.L.N. guerrillas and with such progressive measures as land reform and nationalization of the country's leading industries. His campaign platform promises a new "social contract" between the Salvadoran government and people, including support for collective bargaining, impartial courts and a restructuring of Salvador's brutal security forces...
Nevertheless, the United States should not "tilt" toward Iraq, as we recently did toward Jordan in our offer of weapons to King Hussein. Iraq is not even one of the so-called moderate Arab states. The minority-supported regime in Iraq practices some of the most brutal and oppressive internal policies of any country in the world--a claim supported by their use of mustard gas, which was outlawed after World War I in a treaty ratified by Iraq...
...think the present times are the best times to go to El Salvador," says Julio Martinez, cultural affairs officer at the country's United Nations mission. But despite an ongoing brutal war, El Salvador remains--if you're careful about where you go and pay attention to residents' warnings--a vacation spot full of natural wonders...
Pickens's assault on Gulf was both brutal and spooky. Pickens, the head of the Mesa Petroleum Company, a small but pesky outfit, has through a series of obnoxious buyout threats acquired a terrible reputation in the industry. The history of his Viet Cong-style hit-and-run attacks on corporations far bigger than Mesa goes back...
...hike. He works in a relentlessly sun-drenched present, and his central figures (Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward and James Woods) are used as symbols, not of the past's sweet cheats but of tedious corruption and the lost paradise of Los Angeles. The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role) and Richard Widmark, who stalked many a stylish mean street in better movie days. Their participation is both...