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Indeed, it is the damage done by El Salvador's five-year civil war that has produced the strange bedfellows. Traditionally, coffee has provided more than 50% of the country's export revenues. It still does, but since 1980 income from coffee has shrunk, from more than $615 million to $403 million. This year bountiful rains promise a slight reversal of the trend. At current world prices, the Salvadoran coffee harvest could bring in as much as $410 million in desperately needed foreign exchange. Because roughly 25% of the crop is grown in areas contested or controlled by the guerrillas...
Significantly, many Salvadoran coffee growers seem less resentful of the rebels' role in labor negotiations than of government export and foreign- exchange taxes, because these levies are higher. Even in a country as bitterly divided as El Salvador, political enmity can take a back seat to economic self-interest...
Noting that he hoped the move would nudge the University closer to reversing its policy of opposing divestiture, Goldstein said "We don't export South Africa to listen to the Harvard Law Review. But we do think they would listen to Harvard University...
...swim coach Joseph Bernal, accepted as reigning export on the subject at Harvard, tells of a Vietnam prisoner of war, who returning home after seven years, plays golf on his local course. Although emaciated and weak, he scores near per because he claims he has been practicing for years, mentally rehearsing the course as an escape from prison life...
...modest way he began to procure technological equipment for export to Viet Nam, despite the formal U.S. embargo on all but relief aid to that country. From January 1981 until November 1983, the Commerce Department issued Cooperman and his committee seven licenses to export goods to Viet Nam; all the exports were officially described as "humanitarian aid." According to records recovered from Cooperman's office, however, his purchases included such items as closed-circuit video-surveillance equipment and Apple computers. Sending Hanoi these sophisticated products would almost certainly be illegal. "The law says you cannot even export a bicycle," notes...