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CENTRAL AMERICA. The Reagan Administration views the Sandinista government now running Nicaragua as a group of Soviet-allied Marxists, and fears that consolidation of the Sandinistas' hold on Nicaragua would pose a deadly danger of leftist revolution spreading not only to neighboring Central American countries but eventually even to Mexico. Washington's strategy to prevent that has been to sponsor the anti-Sandinista contras, with the avowed aim of putting pressure on the Sandinistas to stop exporting revolution. U.S. diplomats claim some success. Asserts one: "This (Sandinista) government is in trouble. It has gone 180 degrees from preaching 'revolution without...
...Salvador, U.S. hopes are pinned to President Jose Napoleon Duarte. After winning in a free election last year, he moved cautiously but firmly against El Salvador's notorious death squads and opened negotiations with Nicaraguan-supported leftist rebels while continuing to wage war against them. But Duarte faces strong opposition from right-wingers who deplore both his reform plans and negotiations with the rebels; the rightists hope to win a majority in the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly in March, and some U.S. analysts think they have a chance. If Duarte falls or is rendered ineffective, prospects for defeating leftist revolution look...
...book so obviously aimed at an American audience, Riding should have stuck with the warning of his penultimate chapter. It is a timely point: Given the Reagan Administration's fear of a wave of leftist takeovers in Central America, it's important to underscore that Mexico faces the same problems which launched authoritarianism in other relatively advanced Latin American nations. With the rest of the region enjoying a democratic renaissance, Washington should be concerned about a potential dictatorship next door--and respond with something more constructive than crude intervention or sheer indifference...
...just that he became El Salvador's first elected civilian President in half a century. Nor that he began peace talks with leftist rebels after five years of convulsive bloodletting. Those achievements, impressive as they are, only hint at why Jose Napoleon Duarte has come to embody the desperate hopes of a nation. His singular quality is his bravery...
...servicemen on Grenada, it had tried to stay out of the contest. Said a U.S. official: "We maintained a hands-off policy. But anyone who knows anything at all about Grenada knew that a moderate party was the best bet. What everybody wanted was a government that was neither leftist nor a brutal, corrupt, fruitcake regime that would pave the way for another radical takeover...