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GENERAL Efrain Rios Montt, catapulted to power last spring through a coup, is a born-again Christian. The rightist leader worked as an evangelist before assuming his current duties and was affiliated with the Church of the Word, which has links to the Gospel Outreach group in Eureka, California...
...scheme involved having FBI Agent Benedict Tisa pose as "James Benedict" and claim to be an officer of the Eureka Federal Savings and Loan Association in San Carlos, Calif, 40 miles southeast of San Francisco. A key figure, described in FBI affidavits only as a "C.I." (cooperating individual), made contact with Hetrick and told him that the bank would help him with his "money problems." The C.I. also told Hetrick that Benedict would not only approve the laundering of funds at the bank, but would like to make some money from drug deals...
Talk to college students about panty raids at ol Eureka. Do a few innings of a World Series game on TV and ask endearing questions about what a "designated hitter" does and whether it's true that all professional athletes are drug fiends these days...
Crimson: The Reagan Administration's statements, [especially] the Eureka speech, seem to mark something of a change in their policies, especially their admission that the Soviet leaders had learned the necessity of preventing nuclear war. Do you believe that Reagan has significantly altered his [nuclear arms reduction] strategy, and what chance of success do you think the START program...
...shrewdly orchestrated campaign to dispel criticism that Reagan has failed to involve himself personally in the development of a coherent foreign policy. It began in earnest with Reagan's proposal last April for a summit meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and his speech at Illinois' Eureka College-his alma mater-outlining proposals for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Soviet Union. Reagan's address was partly in response to a growing grass-roots sentiment for a freeze on nuclear weapons. Six days after he returns from Europe, the President will visit the United Nations...