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Support for Contadora came from another quarter last week. Echoing De la Madrid's assessment, the Inter-American Dialogue, a privately funded group of U.S. and Latin American diplomats, businessmen and academics, concluded in an 87-page report that "the roots of insecurity in the hemisphere and particularly in Central America are primarily economic, social and political." The solutions, it added, "lie in economic and social development and political dialogue, not in more weapons and military advisers." The study, prepared under the direction of Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, encouraged direct negotiations between...
...important political role in the years to come. Congress thankfully blocked the arms sales, but the blunders continued. Embassy officials criticized human rights workers, explaining that a Peronist victory would best serve American interests. In November, just one month after Alfonsin's election, Robert Schweitzer, an official with the Inter-American Defense Board, slipped into Argentina to meet with top military officials, without telling the new leaders. This enraged Alfonsin--and rightly so--enough that the United States lifted the arms ban, for lack of anything better to do. But the move was too late...
...some Mason Fellows question the need for a trip at all, especially to a developing country. "A more interesting trip would have been to Washington D.C." one of the Fellows argues. "It would have been more profitable to go to the World Bank, the I.M.F. or the Inter-American Development Bank, or the United Nations in New York...
...week began, the players in the debt poker game came together, appropriately enough, at the Hotel Casino San Rafael, the site of a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in the seaside resort of Punta del Este, Uruguay. Grinspun headed the Argentine delegation, while William Rhodes, representing Citicorp, led an eleven-member team of bankers. One banker joked that Punta del Este would witness its most explosive confrontation since three British cruisers challenged the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the shores of the resort in December...
...testimony before a House subcommittee last week, Langhorne Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, urged a "gentleman's agreement," possibly to classify and thus keep secret the requirements for continued aid. This would make it unnecessary for the Salvadoran government to submit to American demands in public. At a dinner in Peoria, Ill., Shultz argued that it is impractical for the U.S. simply to cut off aid to those governments that abuse human rights. Said Shultz: "This to me is a copout; it seems more concerned with making us feel better than with having an impact...