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...angers the Mexicans - concerns El Salvador. López Portillo resents the U.S. insistence on making the guerrilla war in that country a test case for its eagerness to help a friendly government survive "indirect armed aggression" by Cuba and other Communist nations that are funneling weapons to the leftist guerrillas. Though the Mexican President has refused to give them aid in the Salvadoran conflict, he publicly supports the leftists. In addition, he has a longstanding and effusive friendship with Cuba's Fidel Castro at a time when the U.S. wants to get tough with Castro...
...underscore the dangers facing Central America and the Caribbean, State Department officials claimed last week that several Soviet T-55 tanks may have been shipped from Cuba to the leftist government in Nicaragua. Though officials admitted that the reports have not been confirmed, Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged last week that Nicaragua has been steadily stockpiling other arms from the Soviet Union, Cuba and Libya. Haig added: "We see no threat [to Nicaragua] that justifies increases of this size." Managua, however, feels that a buildup is necessary to counter the threat of an invasion by right-wing Nicaraguan guerrillas...
Perhaps more important are differences between the Reagan and Carter Administrations about ridding Angola of the 12,000 to 20,000 Cuban troops that have remained there since they helped leftist forces win the civil war in 1976. Carter policy implicitly accepted an Angolan claim that the Cubans would leave after the South Africans pulled out of Namibia. The Reagan Administration, on the other hand, is under heavy pressure from Republican hard-liners like Senator Jesse Helms to make Cuban withdrawal a prior condition for the Namibian settlement. Helms also wants the U.S. to force Angola into sharing power with...
During an airline hijacking, the passengers are usually cowed and careful. But last week, after four young, armed Turks, members of a leftist terrorist group, diverted a Turkish Air Lines DC-9 to Bulgaria and demanded the release of 47 of their comrades in Turkish prisons, the hostages boldly decided to strike back. By the second day, according to the plane's pilot Barlas Akidil, "we had received several signs from the passengers that they were very eager to get rid of the terrorists...
...revelations, since buttressed by other former U.S. and Japanese diplomats, exploded across Japan. Last week Socialist Leader Ichio Asukata declared that the government of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki "deserves 10,000 deaths" for the nuclear deceit. Leftist and labor organizations rallied to protest port calls by U.S. naval vessels and demanded on-site inspections of all U.S. bases in Japan...