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...miles from the coast. Even as the Administration proceeded with plans for the military exercises, which will involve 19 naval vessels and as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen at sea and in Honduras, it was displaying increasingly overt interest in finding a diplomatic solution to the Central American dilemma. Last week, after elaborate planning, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met secretly with Ruben Zamora, 40, a leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, which represents the five guerrilla organizations that are fighting under a joint banner in El Salvador. In the past, the U.S. had refused to deal directly with...
...migration of funds to the U.S. has created a dilemma for other nations. They must jack up their own interest rates to compete with U.S. levels if they hope to keep the money from departing. But the higher rates will then dampen their economies. "Germany has already let its interest rates drift up since spring," notes Hans Mast, chief economist for Credit Suisse in Zurich. "If American rates don't drop by fall, European rates will have to start moving up." Says Economist Heller: "The international costs and consequences of our interest rates are really incalculable...
...increasingly unwilling to accept those conditions. Says João Camilo Pena, Minister of Industry and Commerce: "If the IMF gives the same medicine to all debtor nations, they will all perish from the cure." As last week's strikes and protests dramatically demonstrate, solutions to the debt dilemma that require stern sacrifices could be a formula for political chaos...
...pocket of Uncle Sam. Monge stresses what might be called the liberal critique of the Central American crisis. As he told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott last week: "For decades there has been repression of the people of Central America by oligarchs. This has created a serious dilemma for the U.S. Is it going to support unpopular oligarchs against guerrillas controlled by the Marxist-Leninists? Costa Rica wants to be identified with whatever chance there is for a peaceful solution to the problems of the region...
...main problems during 16 school years were diagraming sentences in grade school and trying to take part in too many activities in high school. His diagraming difficulties came to an end when it was discovered he was so nearsighted he could not see the blackboard. He resolved his overscheduling dilemma in high school by choosing school plays over basketball...