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...those accomplishments, concluding, for example, that Kissinger "cheated" his way to a summit and "lied" about the SALT treaty. Hersh adds scattershot allegations about a number of international events and situations, including charges that Nixon received a large cash contribution to his election campaign in 1968 from the military junta that ran Greece in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
...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 in its Central American policy. Nonetheless, said Stone, "the odds are long" against expectations...
Fearful that leftist radicals might try to exploit Honduras' domestic woes, Alvarez began to crack down on terrorists after the inauguration of Suazo in January 1982. The Argentine-trained Alvarez seemed to be adopting the same tactics the military junta in Buenos Aires used in its "dirty war" against leftist terrorists in the 1970s. According to human rights activists, 34 people have been murdered and an additional five have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. In April, paramilitary squads gunned down three trade-union leaders. Says Ramón Custodio López, a doctor who helped found the Honduran Commission...
...concerned about a marked buildup in the Nicaraguan army, which now numbers 25,000, compared with the 11,500-member Honduran force. They point out that the Nicaraguans have stationed tanks within easy striking distance of Honduras, while Honduran troops have been kept away from the border. The Sandinista junta has made no secret of its interest in making trouble for the U.S.-backed government in Tegucigalpa. In April, Nicaragua's government-controlled press gave prominent coverage to the founding of a new coalition of Honduran guerrillas, the National Unity Directorate of the Revolutionary Movement of Honduras. The group...
Daniel Ortega, Saavedra, 37, head of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta and a leading member of the ruling nine-man National Directorate, is perhaps his country's most outspoken opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. His two-hour interview with TIME last week was heavy with criticism of what he sees as U.S. attempts to undermine Sandinista rule. Excerpts...