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...however, were disappointed by Reagan's choice of former Democratic Senator Richard Stone of Florida (see box). They feel Stone is too aligned with the current Administration, for which he has undertaken several diplomatic missions in Central America, and with the deposed right-wing dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala, for which he served as a paid lobbyist. The White House held up the appointment for a day while aides assessed Stone's chances for confirmation by the Senate. Many Democrats felt the issue was irrelevant. "Rather than an envoy, we should have a good policy," said Senator...
...hard-line ideological views, the same views that endear him to his Administration supporters, National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Stone's work in 1981 and 1982 as a paid lobbyist for the right-wing Guatemalan government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, a regime with an abysmal record of human rights abuses, also disturbs some members of Congress; they fear that this connection will hurt his credibility with Salvadoran leftists. Reagan shrugged off such concerns, saying, "It just adds to the experience he's had down there." Despite the grumbling on Capitol Hill...
...week's diplomatic process wore on, the Reagan Administration could savor some small gains in Central America. The first came in El Salvador, where Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia, 49, announced his resignation. For months, Garcia has been the object of increasing frustration for U.S. military trainers and restive officers of the Salvadoran armed forces. An astute politician, Garcia had been helpful to the U.S. in supporting El Salvador's land-reform program and curbing the excesses of right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. But on the antiguerrilla battlefront, Garcia fought what...
...Garcia was succeeded by Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, 44, formerly head of the 3,000-man Salvadoran National Guard, some of whose members are charged with murdering four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980. The new Defense Minister is expected to turn control of the war effort over to qualified regional military commanders. Says a U.S. military official in San Salvador: "Vides Casanova understands that this war is being fought in the minds of the people and not over a particular piece of ground." A renewed Salvadoran government offensive against the guerrillas is expected within the next eight weeks...
Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ∙ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Márquez Heartburn, Nora Ephron Ironweed, William Kennedy ∙ The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré Tzili: The Story of a Life, Aharon Appelfeld