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...within their countries. By inducing them to change their repressive policies, we would be enhancing freedom and democracy and helping to remove the reasons for revolutions that often erupt among those who suffer from persecution. We might therefore accomplish our purposes without replacing a rightist totalitarian regime with a leftist one of the same oppressive character. A human rights effort would also help strengthen our influence among developing nations that were still in the process of choosing their future friends and trading partners. And it was the right thing...
...that chance would have been extremely slim at best. Although the U.S. denounced the Israeli occupation of West Beirut, the President undercut the force of the protest. Campaigning in New Jersey, Reagan offhandedly commented, "I'm sure what led them to move in was an attack by some leftist militia forces." Says one U.S. foreign policy analyst: "Begin is always watching to see if Reagan will go soft. And he will always choose to believe those Reagan statements over a diplomatic message...
...week, Hondurans anxiously watched the stalemate in the northern industrial town of San Pedro Sula There, in the local Chamber of Commerce auditorium, leftist guerrillas held hostage scores of the country's leading businessmen and three top government officials. Outside, the army stood guard holding its fire, but working on the guerrillas' nerves during the long nights by banging garbage-can lids and throwing stones on the auditorium's tin roof. Whether they willed it or not, Hondurans were being drawn more deeply into the political turmoil that plagues so many countries in Central America...
Over 30,000 people have died in El Salvador since 1979, when leftist guerillas, industrial workers and peasant farmers began a battle against a U.S.-backed junta that overthrew one military government and installed another. The chief antagonists in the war are the government's security forces and the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), a coalition of five rebel groups which is named for a Salvadoran populist leader...
Harvard undergraduates have received unsolicited suggestions this term on which classes to select thanks to a self styled group of radical Leftist students who are distributing a list of recommended courses...