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...flexes its muscles, Reagan's envoy meets a Salvadoran rebel...
...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 the Salvadoran guerrillas, arguing that...
...White House press conference last week, "It certainly will give us a better case for breaking the roadblock that has been established by Syria and persuading them to keep their original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." That is the essence of the message U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane is expected to carry to Syria on his first swing through the region this week, meeting with Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, among others. There is no indication, however, that the argument will change Syrian President Hafez Assad's mind...
...greatest danger of de facto partition is that a prolonged Israeli-Syrian face-off in Lebanon will eventually deteriorate into all-out war. That is reason enough for the U.S. to send Special Envoy McFarlane to Syria this week to pursue a goal that both his predecessor Philip Habib and Secretary of State Shultz have failed to achieve: the mutual withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops. A rookie in Middle East affairs, McFarlane might want to ponder the wisdom of the sign that hangs in the office of the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Lebanese town of Naqura...
...dark side of a whole cluster of Yankee virtues. Confronted with intractable, ambiguous challenges in other lands, America's cando, problem-solving, troubleshooting instincts twitch in an often misguided quest for the quick fix. Got a problem? Send in a military governor or a proconsul or a special envoy. Still got a problem? Send money. Still got a problem? Send in the Rough Riders, or the Marines. For nearly a century, that has been the standard American response to troubles down south...