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...corridors may have suggested that a re-creation of Sodom and Gomorrah was being staged. Reason: about 125 prostitutes, including three men, were attending the Second World Whores Congress. They were in Brussels at the invitation of the Green- Alternative European Link, an alliance of environmentalist and independent leftist parties...
Nicaraguan officials have claimed the supply operation was part of a CIA effort to help the Contras, who have been fighting for four years to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government...
Asked whether he approved of private efforts aimed against Nicaragua's leftist government, Reagan said, "We're in a free country where private citizens have a great many freedoms...
...face of that new sense of menace, many Hondurans do not know where to turn. Although they dislike and distrust the leftist government in Managua, they are not keen to support the Sandinistas' enemies. Apart from destabilizing the area, the 15,000 contras have been charged with robbing . local campesinos and even, in a few cases, raping and killing them. Some Honduran officials fear the guerrillas are too ill prepared and misdirected to unseat the Sandinistas and will ultimately end up as refugees in Honduras. "They have no chance to win," says a local government official. "I just wish that...
Aquino's position was bolstered in Manila, where a 48-member commission, charged by Aquino with drafting a new constitution, defeated a move by leftist delegates to ban all foreign military bases from Philippine soil. Instead, the commission agreed to leave the issue out of the constitution, making lease extensions for the U.S. military bases subject to legislative approval...