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Meanwhile, the minuscule economic elite of El Salvador is doing very well, living off the export of coffee, sugar cane, and cotton. Two per cent of the country owns over 60 per cent of the farmland, and 5 per cent of the people receive 50 per cent of the income. A corporation president in El Salvador recently told the truth: "It is a class war," he said. It does not take Fidel Castro to tell people they are being repressed, starved, taken away in the middle of the night, and shot down in the streets. A revolution was coming...
...Nicaragua's economy going. Even with an estimated $450 million in aid and loans, the Nicaraguan economy ended last year completely bankrupt. Because of inflation, higher oil prices and lower aid levels, Nicaragua this year faces a potential $240 million balance of payments deficit. Exports of coffee and cotton may offer a temporary respite, but the future for agricultural production could be bleak; no new coffee bushes have been planted since 1979, and it takes at least three years for the plants to mature...
...black capital of the U.S., a city within a city. Harlem is not the biggest black community in the country, but it is the most important, and even today there are memories of the golden days when tourists came from all over the world for a night at the Cotton Club or the Apollo Theater. This four-part series is both a history and a celebration of those storied blocks of uptown Manhattan, a fascinating scrapbook of a lost and almost forgotten time...
...left is going to mount an offensive, December would be an almost ideal month. It is harvest time for major export crops-coffee, sugar cane and cotton-and disruption in the fields could deal the shaky economy a crippling blow. Leftists are also concerned that the going may get rougher after Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin...
...Cotton Bowl, January 1, at Dallas: Meet the most overrated team in the country, 9-2 Alabama. Meet potential national champion 10-1 Baylor. Watch Bear Bryant cry into his hat, as Baylor pulls...