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...Blue Hawaii, one in an endless strip of girlie bars, business is good, even though it's early afternoon. Every few minutes the girls dancing on the bar take over for the girls hustling drinks. Six pesos--roughly 30 American cents--buys the audience of businessmen, sailors and tourists large mugs of beer; drinks for the girls cost 40 pesos. For 200 they will let you take them upstairs...
...Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras. The figure he has in mind is $5 million; he carries a letter of recommendation from President Ronald Reagan...
Reagan's only substantive public statement on Iranscam last week provoked a minor uproar on Capitol Hill. In a speech to a businessmen's group, the President made the ill-conceived proposal that the Senate Intelligence Committee provide him with its findings on the Iran-contra matter. That way, said Reagan, the White House could declassify the information and release it "so the American people can judge for themselves" what the scandal is about. Since the still incomplete probe has found no evidence of presidential complicity in any misdeeds, the report might exonerate Reagan in the eyes of the public...
...days after the killing, up to 2 million people streamed into the streets in an unprecedented outpouring of sorrow and shock, transforming Aquino's funeral into the largest procession in the country's history. In the weeks and months that followed, street vendors and socialites, businessmen and radicals all awoke from years of resignation to cry out their rage. Yet the official opposition to Marcos remained fatally factious, divided into more than a dozen self-seeking groups, each of them tainted either by extremist positions, associations with the government or long years of failure...
...Soviets remains serious and abiding. The Soviet view of the state and the people creates an institutionalized barbarism that Americans logically must oppose; and the Soviet leaders, if they are to hold on to what they've got, must oppose our opposition. Here we stand, then: two aging businessmen who have little sympathy for each other but who know each other too well, each learning to be content with day-to-day sales...