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...that now appears to have grown into an attempt to topple the Sandinista government. As a result, the border between Honduras and Nicaragua has suddenly become a tinderbox where a few skirmishes could easily erupt into a full-scale shooting war. Even if war does not break out, critics contend, not only have the U.S. activities strengthened the resolve of the Sandinistas in Managua but the operations now threaten to destabilize Honduras itself...
...many, such ends are not ill-advised. Besides, if the Administration should press allies like El Salvador and Guatemala to improve human rights conditions, as some contend--why shouldn't it strongarm Israel? Such an analogy overlooks the fact that Israel is a democracy, unlike those Latin American countries where outside pressure is the only possible influence on a dictator. For all its weaknesses, the Jewish state must decide on its own what course to follow; if Israelis have had enough of Lebanon, the territories and Begin, they have the internal procedures to say so and act on their will...
...State Department is "obviously pleased" that the accused finally are being brought to trial. Not so pleased are the families of the murdered Americans, who contend that El Salvador is covering up the involvement of superior officers in the killings. Lawyers for the relatives informed the State Department last week that they would not participate in the trial. But U.S. officials insist that there simply is no evidence that high-ranking Guardsmen were involved. Says a U.S. diplomat in El Salvador: "The sad thing is that these families are being used by people not interested in justice but in political...
...through 800 miles of pipeline and then shipped 1,000 miles by tanker to reach the nearest customers. Says Oil Consultant Walter Levy: "The fact that the oil companies don't have to spend $8 billion for an Alaskan pipeline is a major advantage." Also, not having to contend with bitter Arctic weather will make it far easier to maintain and operate California wells...
...bishops argue their case against nuclear arms in the months ahead, they will contend that this stance is consistent with the tradition of church teaching on war. Until the Bomb, Christianity's approach to war had remained fundamentally unchanged for centuries. The earliest Christians refused all military service because they thought Jesus' love-thy-neighbor teachings mandated pacifism, and because Rome required idolatrous vows. Christianity became an established religion in the 4th century and soon embraced St. Augustine's "just war" theory, expanded in later centuries by Thomas Aquinas and other theologians...