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...about the benefits of "symmetry," the latest buzzword in Washington. By symmetry Administration policymakers mean doing to the Sandinistas what the Sandinistas are doing to the government of El Salvador, namely backing a group of insurgents aimed at its overthrow. Some U.S. officials are convinced of the need to harass the Nicaraguans in order to impress upon them the notion that they cannot export revolution with impunity. Symmetry could come to imply that the Sandinistas may have to negotiate a political accommodation with the contras along the lines of the negotiated power sharing that some leftists in El Salvador...
...week. What counts, the officials maintained, is not the intentions of the contras but those of the U.S. And the contras' hope of overthrowing the Sandinista government is a delusion of grandeur; they lack the numbers, training and equipment to do it. All they can accomplish is to harass the Nicaraguan government, and all the U.S. hopes to do by aiding them is to demonstrate to that government that it cannot aid insurrection in El Salvador without suffering reprisals at home...
...General Bigone to the presidency. "The press has been less inhibited in 1982 than at any time since the early 1970's." In fact, the press was far more free and represented a wider spectrum of political opinion after the national elections of 1973. The Argentine government continued to harass journalists in 1982, and during the Falkland-Malvinas crisis, three British correspondents were incarcerated on "espionage" charges...
...French school with 40 European children. Cheese and fruits are imported from France. Says Christian Coupechoux, the project director: "Sometimes we run out of beer and whisky, but we never run out of wine." Still, life is grim. Armed bandits, holdovers from the Sudan civil war of 1955-72, harass workers. Illness is rife; Coupe-choux's predecessor died early last year of malaria. Even more distressing are the unrelieved isolation, heat and monotony. Says Pierre Blanc, the project's technical director: "It's like living on an island, only worse...
Labor reversed its opposition to Sunday sales, citing protections in the bill. The bill mandates stores with seven or more employees pay time and a half for Sunday work and makes it an unfair labor practice to harass employees who don't volunteer to work that...