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...which calls for a non-aggression agreement and a commitment to democracy among the nations of Central America, have been going on since January 1983. The U.S. has grave reservations about the treaty as it stands. Among other flaws, say U.S. diplomats, the document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance to Nicaragua. The Contadora nations, on the other hand, evidently feel that the U.S. is stalling. "We cannot clearly understand the opposition of the U.S. to the Contadora draft treaty," Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME...
Another issue of concern at last week's IMF-World Bank meeting was the continued rise in value of the U.S. dollar. The West German Bundesbank again intervened in world money markets to halt the volatile increase of the dollar against the mark; following the West German action the dollar declined slightly. - By John S. DeMott...
...themselves, though, is the degree to which Wednesday's crowd was willing to condone--and actually seemed to enjoy--the crudity and adolescent jeering. Rally organizers, for example, encouraged supporters to come by telling them that they would need people to counter hecklers. Similarly, instead of calling for a halt to contention and vulgarity, religious leaders like Jerry Falwell actually seem to be inciting such provocation...
...last Thursday, a van with diplomatic license plates pulled up at a checkpoint outside the embassy annex, a building in East Beirut that in the past few months had become the headquarters of Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew and his staff. The car was ordered to halt by the Lebanese security guards on duty at the checkpoint. Suddenly the driver pulled a gun and shot at one of the guards. Then, as another guard shouted and ran after the van, the driver raced his engine, zigzagged through the "dragon's teeth," a staggered row of concrete blocks designed to reduce...
...disaster threatens to paralyze the $1.2 billion Florida citrus business. Says Stephen Poe, a plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture: "Of every disease that affects the citrus industry, canker is the most destructive." In a swift, ruthless effort to halt the epidemic, the state began emergency burning. It is the only reliable means of eradicating the disease. Ward's and the other four nurseries are being entirely torched; so are any seedlings recently purchased from those nurseries, along with any surrounding trees. By year's end many millions of plants will have been incinerated, leaving dozens...