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...Sandinistas are, in a word that Secretary of State George Shultz has used repeatedly, "unacceptable." The implication not only of that word but of much of the accompanying policy is that the Sandinistas must go. The Administration's chosen instrument for attaining that goal is a U.S.-backed guerrilla war waged by the contras. The President's go-for-broke campaign on behalf of the contras seems to court defeat both in Washington, at the hands of an increasingly recalcitrant Congress, and in Nicaragua itself, at the hands of the Sandinistas. That is partly because the policy has taken...
Even if the contras were willing to persist in a guerrilla war, there is doubt that U.S. opinion would persist in backing them. The current wrangle over aid to the contras is all too typical of what happens when the American political system tries to cope with a controversial foreign entanglement that does not promise clear or early results...
...Machel government is under siege by a ten-year-old guerrilla insurgency that claims to control two-thirds of the rural interior and is now active in several urban areas. Last week rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance (M.N.R.) set off two car bombs in the capital of Maputo, injuring some 50 people, three of them critically. Despite its army of 15,000 men and a steady flow of military equipment from East bloc countries, the government has been unable to fight off the insurgents, who boast 10,000 men under arms and are suspected of receiving clandestine backing from...
...ground and in the air last week, fighting in the 6½-year-old revolt of Afghan rebels against Soviet invasion forces reached its fiercest level. In an all-out drive to cut the guerrillas' main supply line from Pakistan, Soviet troops overran a key stronghold in Jawar in eastern Afghanistan. The mile-long underground complex was a major training and storage site for the anti-Communist mujahedin forces. Meanwhile, waves of war-planes blasted insurgent positions along the Afghan-Pakistani border as some 10,000 Soviet and Afghan troops advanced on the ground. "This is the worst fighting...
...unity. "We'll come out of this, with the efforts and courage of all Salvadorans," Duarte said in a radio address. The magnitude of the disaster produced a rare show of solidarity in a nation torn by a seven-year civil war. In an extraordinary communiqué, the rebel guerrilla force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, declared a temporary cease-fire...