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Indeed, constitutions are living documents that are constantly being created and reshaped. Voters in the Philippines went to the polls in January to approve a new charter, the country's fifth, that prohibits human rights violations and retains Corazon Aquino as President until 1992. In Nicaragua this year, the Marxist-influenced Sandinista leadership unveiled that country's twelfth constitution in 149 years. Haitians in March approved their 23rd charter since 1804 in the country's first free election in three decades...
...Managua, gasoline lines stretched for blocks last week as drivers rushed to service stations before the pumps ran dry. The panic buying followed an order by the Marxist-oriented Sandinista government that nearly tripled gas prices and sent the cost of basic goods soaring. Managua acted after announcing three weeks ago that the Soviet Union, which provides virtually all of Nicaragua's oil directly or through Eastern Europe, could supply only 40% of the country's petroleum needs. The Soviets have been surprisingly candid about their aims. Said a high-ranking Mexican official after meeting Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
...issue is not one of reaction against revolution. Landon is as little Bourbon as Roosevelt is Marxist. The choice is rather between an orderly correction of current abuses in the capitalist system, carried out after mature study and in line with constitutional procedure, and a hit-and-run revision of all existing institutions, carried out by the impulses of one man coupled with the endless grasping of pressure groups of every kind...
...Pino told Justice Department officials that he was recently appointed deputy chief of staff in the Cuban Armed Forces Ministry. Described as an "internationalist commander" in official Cuban press reports, Del Pino reportedly served as chief of air troops in Angola, where 30,000 Cuban soldiers are helping the Marxist regime battle U.S.-backed rebels. According to U.S. officials, he also helped oversee the Cuban military setup in Nicaragua. Said a Justice Department spokesman: "He's in a position to know pretty much anything we'd want to find out about the Cuban military -- and a lot of other things...
...disobeyed and even controlled access to the military planes that until lately provided the only transportation in and out of the area. A fervent anti-Communist and admirer of the military, Dom Miguel belongs to the minority of Brazil's bishops who oppose left-wing liberation theology, which follows Marxist-style analysis of social oppression...