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...faring so well. The Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE), operating in southern Nicaragua, not only remains estranged from the F.D.N. but is badly split. Eden Pastora Gomez, the swashbuckling ARDE leader who once commanded 2,500 men, has been reduced to door-to-door fund raising in San Jose, Costa Rica's capital. There have been reports of Pastora's followers selling their guns for food. On the Caribbean Coast, an estimated 1,000 Miskito Indian rebels are divided into two rival factions and poorly equipped...
Israel and Egypt account for a third of U.S. foreign aid, and their requests for increases will force the State Department to make painful choices in cutting back aid to other countries. Reagan's Administration has steadily emphasized military assistance. Last year El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala received a total of $297 million in military aid, and this year the President intends to ask Congress for an extra $150 million for El Salvador. Central America is expected to continue to receive a large portion of the military-aid allotment. The White House also wants Congress to nearly double...
...Cislaw of Costa Mesa, Calif., seemed to have it all: suntanned good looks, natural athletic and artistic talent, and popularity. One night last March, while recovering from the flu, he took a few drags on a kretek, or clove cigarette, an Indonesian concoction of tobacco and cloves that has become popular with teen-agers across the nation. Soon he was gasping for breath, and by the next day he was in an intensive-care unit suffering from what appeared to be an unusually severe type of pneumonia. "He had cysts the size of golf balls in his lungs," says Thoracic...
...clove craze began on the West Coast around 1980. Now, says Beatrice Schwalbe, 19, a former two-pack-a-day kretek smoker from Costa Mesa, "anywhere you find a bunch of teen-agers, you'll find clove cigarettes." New York City Importer George Georgopulo reports that sales of the two leading brands--Jakarta and Djarum--have jumped 40% in the past year alone...
Three days after Cardenal's expulsion, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr., editor of La Prensa, the country's only opposition paper, announced that he had temporarily moved to Costa Rica. Chamorro charged that censorship and travel restrictions had grown so severe since last month's national elections that life had become "impossible." It is a measure of the task facing the contras that they have so far been unable to turn discontent like Chamorro's into support for their own cause. -By James Kelly...