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...pluralism and representative democracy and freedom of the press. We do think that there is a chance for self-government to emerge in an area that has long lived without it. We regret the success that antidemocratic forces have had in convincing too many people that a Marxist-Leninist victory would amount to self-government, that guerrillas are always supported by the majority, that no civilian casualties are caused by the rebels and that leftist victories are always inevitable . . . We don't think that the declarations of the Nicaraguan junta, Soviet press agencies and Fidel Castro should go unexamined...
...called the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which set off the present furor (see box). Last week the I.R.D. produced a 100-page booklet with more documentation for its sweeping claim that the foreign policy activity of many Protestant agencies "often leans in some significant ways toward the Marxist-Leninist left...
...later omitted by both Time and Newsweek in recent features on El Salvador. Congress has complained not about the unethically of starting another Vietnam, but about the high cost and "lack of tangible effects." With the early-1960's style of mawkishness comes the same hackneyed talk of "Marxist-Leninist contagion...
...force" in that country. Lopez Portillo called for negotiations with the guerrillas, thereby undercutting U.S. support for the civihan-military regime. He has frequently offered to act as an intermediary between the U.S. and Cuba over the crisis in Central America and has espoused the cause of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista rulers of Nicaragua. On the touchy issue of the recent Falkland Is lands war, Lopez Portillo tried to have it both ways. His government supported Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the islands but also deplored the use of force in trying to settle the claim...
...soil and will even let Nicaragua participate in the trade and investment benefits of the Caribbean Basin Initiative. What will come of the talks is uncertain, but the very fact that the Administration appears willing to deal with a nation that it has often denounced as a budding Marxist-Leninist dictatorship indicates a new flexibility in policy...