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...nation "listening" tour of Central America. On his first stop, in El Salvador, Stone met with Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, and the country's archbishop, Arturo Rivera y Damas. Stone will also visit Nicaragua; it will be the first high-level U.S. visit to the revolutionary Sandinista government since Enders met with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra there in 1981. Among other things, the Stone visit is intended to emphasize to the U.S. Congress that the Reagan Administration is still willing to pursue a reasonable and flexible course...
Additional evidence of that intervention came last week in the form of a onetime high-level Salvadoran guerrilla. In an interview with TIME, Alejandro Montenegro, 28, a former member of the Salvadoran rebel faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, declared that starting in 1980, Salvadoran guerrillas "were sent to Managua for training." Communications between the rebels and their leaders are also funneled through the Nicaraguan capital, via hand-held Japanese two-way radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments...
Less than two weeks earlier, the Syrians had promised Secretary of State George Shultz that a high-level American negotiator would always be welcome. But last week the state-run Syrian press agency declared that Syria had "nothing to discuss" with Special Envoy Philip Habib, whom it described as "one of the most hostile American diplomats toward the Arabs and their cause." At the time of the signing, the Syrians expressed their displeasure by closing highways in the Syrian-controlled areas of northern and eastern Lebanon. The Syrians have hinted that they might close the Syrian-Lebanese border indefinitely...
...simple proposition ... are his distinguished qualities with which to conduct ideo-theoretical activities." Moreover, North Korean officials steadfastly assert that the world looks to Pyongyang for inspiration and that the government's paid propaganda advertisements in Western newspapers constitute editorial acclaim for the Great Leader. "Korea," observed one high-level official, "is the freest country in the world...
...criterion in senior faculty hiring, and its consistent rejection of promising junior professors whom Harvard would sometimes do well to gamble on, Finally, an unfortunate side effect of Rosovsky's centralized decision-making style has been the demotion of the Faculty as a whole from a lively forum for high-level debate to a rubber stamp for Faculty Council decisions...