Word: inter-american
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...unrest in Argentina. In recent weeks an estimated 2 million wage earners (out of a total of less than 10 million) have gone on strike. In part at least, all of them share the credo expressed by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo four years ago to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: "We have to understand the truth, otherwise a shadow of sadness will forever hang over the descendants of this shattered generation...
...political agreement in Central America on the basis of nonintervention and self-determination. That would, among other things, eliminate foreign military advisers and control the arms race. We think that it is very important that Latin American nations, developed countries and the international community-through the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and other institutions-help Central America with economic assistance...
...early and forcefully on the need to "draw the line" in El Salvador against the spread of Soviet influence. Haig's heated rhetoric was eventually cooled at White House insistence, but policymaking power remained at the State Department in the hands of Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. Enders tried to balance military moves with more emphasis on political and economic initiatives. Under congressional pressure, he even paid lip service to the possibility of a negotiated settlement with the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador...
That was certainly intended to reassure Congress more than Managua. Since the replacement last month of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Enders, a move seen by some as a triumph for hardliners, congressional Democrats have grown even more uneasy about U.S. support of armed attacks against the Nicaraguan government. Thus last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee, voting almost entirely along party lines, passed a Democratic measure that would stop the millions of dollars in covert military aid now going to anti-Sandinista guerrillas...
...joke about mixed feelings. It's like seeing your mother-in-law going over a cliff in your new Cadillac." With that happy-go-lucky quip, L. (for Langhorne) Anthony Motley confirmed to newsmen that he would be replacing Thomas O. Enders as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The mixed feelings might apply equally well to Thomas R. Pickering, who was unexpectedly nominated last week for the daunting position of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. But the good-humored nonchalance was vintage Motley...