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...blur of diplomacy left little doubt that Central America will be a major topic of debate in Congress this fall. Indeed, a struggle is already shaping up in the corridors of Washington over the very survival of the contras, the U.S.-supported guerrillas who are fighting the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. As if to launch the battle, President Reagan last week strongly repeated his support for the foundering contra cause, pledging that "we will not abandon our friends in Central America." Secretary of State George Shultz then went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to plead for $270 million...
...Sandinistas and the contras are not the only ones who can derail the peace process. This week in El Salvador, President Jose Napoleon Duarte is scheduled to begin peace negotiations with the country's leftist guerrillas. But a dispute over whether the rebels must first put down their arms threatens to abort the talks. Arias, who has agreed to mediate, will undoubtedly struggle valiantly to pull the talks back on track. But if the plan stalls in El Salvador, it may be the beginning of the end for the Guatemala peace accord...
...midnight coup was not the first event to disturb Aquino's sleep last week. Two days earlier the President provoked a general strike by leftist and conservative trade unions, angry over a recently announced hike in gasoline prices, from $1.24 to $1.49 per gal. In a country where the average annual income is barely $600 a year, the increase was stunning. Though Aquino finally declared a partial rollback of the hike, thousands of Filipinos walked off their jobs and out of their classrooms in the largest show of protest since Aquino assumed the presidency. After the strike went into...
...Operatives from ISA and Seaspray gathered intelligence in El Salvador that greatly helped counter a leftist guerrilla insurrection...
...following year, ISA and Seaspray worked together on a mission, code- named Queens Hunter, to locate leftist guerrilla forces in El Salvador by monitoring their radio transmissions. Seaspray pilots flew planes from Honduras to track the transmitters electronically; ISA agents rode along to operate the airborne radio equipment. Although the operation was planned to last only a month, it picked up so much useful information on where the guerrillas were hiding that it was extended for three years...