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...liberal reformer optimists had hoped for. He is widely believed to have ordered up Peking's current crackdown on "bourgeois liberalism," a reference essentially to any sort of behavior that deviates from orthodox Communism. "Deng has not been forced into a weak position by the conservatives," said a Western diplomat in Peking. "This has his full support." The campaign has been likened to the movement against "spiritual pollution" mounted by the government three years ago. But, as one Western diplomat noted, "the 1984 campaign was largely rhetorical. This one is a purge...
...ailing Soviet economy, is anxious to bring his soldiers home from Afghanistan. The question facing Gorbachev is how. The rebels refuse to join a government that is not independent, while the Soviets want a regime friendly to Moscow. "Gorbachev cannot afford just to walk away," says a senior U.S. diplomat, "and the Afghan rebels will not be snowed by phony reconciliation...
...whatever reason, Gaddafi's break with Goukouni caused most of the Chadian rebels to shift their loyalties from Gaddafi to Habre, thereby fundamentally changing the political role of the Libyan forces in northern Chad. Says a Western diplomat in N'Djamena: "What you have now is an invasion of Chad by Libya." Much of the credit for Chad's recent achievements goes to Habre, a French-trained lawyer who has managed to create a sense of unity in a country that has never known the meaning of the word. Buoyed by these successes, the soft-spoken Habre sounded unusually confident...
...This is Franklin and Marshall's strongest team ever," Diplomat Head Coach Bill Marshall said. "Beating Harvard, especially at home, is a formidable challenge for us. Harvard has a great tradition, and a great team...
Even with continued U.S. aid, the contras are unlikely to "liberate" any Nicaraguan territory. Administration realists foresee at best a long campaign of guerrilla harassment; they warn that the contras' ability to continue the fight depends on their retaining sanctuaries in an increasingly nervous Honduras. Says an American diplomat: "Since the Iran business blew up, we have felt a definite increase in the Hondurans' eagerness to see the contras somewhere else -- either in Managua running the country or in New York and Los Angeles waiting on tables, but out of Honduras...