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...Reagan to resume negotiations with the Soviet Union on a variety of issues, most notably arms control. It is this very success, however, that has subjected Shultz to attack from those on the far right. They accuse him of sins ranging from insufficient zeal for U.S. aid to anti-Marxist rebels in Angola to appointing too many nonideological diplomats to policy posts. But their fundamental complaint is that Shultz believes in negotiation, not confrontation, with the Soviets. David Funderburk, a protege of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms who served 3 1/2 years as Ambassador to Rumania, calls Shultz's policy...
...involvement not only in Nicaragua but also in Afghanistan and, more controversially, Angola. The document declares that the U.S. intends to play an even more active role than in the past to apply pressure on the Sandinistas, send covert military aid to the rebels opposing Angola's Marxist government, and help the Afghans harass the Soviet occupying forces...
Covert American aid to the anti-Communist rebels in Afghanistan, which amounts to a reported $470 million this year, has little opposition in Congress. But there is much resistance to getting the U.S. involved in Angola, where a Marxist government is being opposed by the UNITA troops of Jonas Savimbi. He is expected to get a warm reception at a visit to the White House this week. The State Department, as well as many Congressmen, remains opposed to any open U.S. aid to the rebels. The drawbacks: it could link the U.S. to the government of South Africa, which...
...Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo. The author, a Dominican brother in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a leftist churchman who served four years in a Brazilian prison for sheltering anti-government guerrillas. He embraces liberation theology, which offers theological support for resisting political and economic oppression and is usually based on Marxist analysis...
...white Toyota, while an armed, Soviet-made helicopter provided surveillance from the air. When Ortega, 40, reached his destination, a makeshift plaza, he quickly took a seat behind a long table. "Face the People," a folksy forum that brings ordinary Nicaraguans into contact with officials of the Marxist-oriented Sandinista government, was under...