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Despite the high-level meetings, the State Department down-played the notion that some bold stroke was imminent. "The gut issues," said one official, "are not appreciably changed." But that cool appraisal understates the current, critical juncture for U.S. policy toward Central America, in particular El Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile...
...high-level dispute between Hackney and the faculty stems out of an alleged rape at a party in February at Alpha Tao Omega, a UPenn fraternity...
...that outstrips former Secretary of the Interior Watt's best efforts, Speakes, last week hinted at the possible firing of Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. The press secretary made fun of Feldstein's name, and speculated that the Chairman, who was then at a high-level economic luncheon, was at a "last supper," at which he might not last "through dessert...
...after a rash of hijack attempts, authorities declared that plane seizures resulting in loss of life were punishable by death. Neither that penalty nor the rigorous security checks to be found at every Soviet airport were sufficient to deter the Georgian wedding party. Alarmed Soviet officials launched a high-level investigation into the case. No mention of the event appeared in the Soviet national press...
Sokolov was arrested last year for accepting bribes. Some of the caterer's influential acquaintances appealed in his behalf, to no avail. After Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, 1982, his successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...