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...center would not just be social, student proponents insist. It would also serve as a central place to help organize minority events, house libraries, hold meetings, and host similar activities...
...Sandinistas, who this month made two incursions into the area, will have no excuse for further attack. It remained unclear last week where most of the estimated 15,000 rebels are now operating. The contras claimed that 12,000 of their troops have returned to Nicaragua. Sandinista officials insist that the rebels have retreated to areas farther inside Honduras, possibly to wait for new supplies. Either way, the Honduran army's effort, which included the occupation of Las Vegas, the main contra camp, reflected concerns about continuing to allow their country to be used as a staging ground...
...Administration was also under fire from many Costa Ricans, including several Legislative Assembly deputies, who are incensed that 21 U.S. military trainers recently arrived to instruct 750 civil guardsmen. Both U.S. and Costa Rican officials say that the three-month program is nothing more than routine police training, and insist that Costa Rica's neutral status (the country has no armed forces) will not be affected. But many in Costa Rica fear that the U.S. presence might signal the first step toward forming an army...
...Soviet attack; hence, a potential American shift from a strategy of deterrence to one of defense is frightening. Another fear is that the U.S. will spurn any Soviet offer to scrap significant numbers of missiles in the talks now under way in Geneva if the Soviets continue to insist that a halt to Star Wars research be included in any arms-control package. Such an impasse, warns one British official, could trigger "NATO's worst postwar crisis...
Just what role Washington wants the Europeans to play, however, is not at all clear. "Subcontractors!" exclaimed Mitterrand (in English) after listening to Reagan's pitch at the Bonn summit. "That was the word I heard. It confirmed my intuitions." Other government leaders insist that their countries want to be treated as full partners who will be kept apprised of major research developments and get to share in the technology. But a Pentagon briefing last week left officials of the British Defense Ministry with the impression that the U.K. would be . . . well, a subcontractor...