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...decision came quietly, but the reverberations are now sounding around the world. On Nov. 14, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an autonomous judicial arm of the 32-member Organization of American States, ruled 7 to 0 that a law requiring the licensing of journa lists violated the right to free expression. Stephen Schmidt, an American reporter, had been found guilty in 1983 of practicing journalism in Costa Rica without a required license and had received a three-month suspended sentence from that nation's Supreme Court. In its landmark ruling, the human rights court, which sits...
...dramatic reversal, the Administration wants the World Bank to do more. The organization, the U.S. feels, should increase its lending and expand the joint loans it makes with commercial banks to developing countries. The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, in Baker's view, could increase their disbursements to the major debtors by roughly 50% above the current annual level of nearly $6 billion...
...reassure Congress that the vote against contra aid was the right decision. For all its newfound enthusiasm concerning embargoes, the Administration is equally convinced that support for the rebels remains essential. As one of his last official acts last week Langhorne A. Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, declared that "the President still firmly believes in support for the freedom fighters." Motley, a former Alaska real estate developer who resigned in order to return to business, has had his . differences with both hard-liners and "ultra liberals," but had no fundamental disagreements with Administration policy on Nicaragua...
...trade is with the Soviets and its East bloc allies, transportation costs are high. The U.S. embargo has also forced the Cubans to devote much of their light and heavy industry to manufacturing spare parts for their U.S.-built transportation systems and factories. Indeed, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Langhorne A. Motley, who announced his resignation last week, declares, "I think that anybody who looks at Cuban affairs can say that there has been a significant effect on Cuba as a result of the U.S. embargo." It is counted as a small cost that cigar-smoking Americans...
...Week. The star attraction was Fernando Chamorro, head of one of the smaller rebel armies. "We are trying to get a little visibility, to let the American public know us," said Chamorro. "We are here with great optimism and hope that the American government, and more important, the American people, will back us in our fight." Other groups arguing the contra cause include Lehrman's Citizens for America and the Council on Inter-American Security, a conservative organization that held a Nicaraguan Freedom Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. An organization called the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund is planning...