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...Salvador's oldest families, was impatient. He had been waiting a day and a half for his plantation foreman to report the results of a highly sensitive negotiation. Finally, the telephone rang with the news. The foreman had got in touch with El Salvador's Marxist-led guerrillas to discuss wages for the migrant farm laborers whom the cafetalero needed during the 2 1/2-month coffee harvest. The guerrillas' demand on behalf of the workers: about $4 for each 100 lbs. of coffee beans picked, plus food and medical care. The rebels also wanted a slice of the harvest action...
Dawit's musings infuriated M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development. The Ethiopian charges were "just absurd," he said. "Frankly, I think this is the classic example of biting the hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the 1987 national elections. The conference voted to allow such alliances on the local level but declared the Social Democrats not currently acceptable as national coalition partners. That left open the possibility of future deals with the SPD. In that event, the fundamentalists, mostly Marxist-Leninists, would make the withdrawal of U.S. missiles a key demand...
...most prominent member of Nicaragua's democratic opposition, Arturo Cruz Porras, 60, has long criticized both the Marxist-led Sandinista government and the Reagan Administration for their part in polarizing his country. Last week, however, Cruz gave surprising support to the White House in one of its most controversial aims: persuading Congress to reinstate funds to the anti-Sandinista rebels known as the contras...
...inspired contra guerrillas sputters along Nicaragua's northern border, skirmishes between Washington and Managua continue to rage on broader battlefields: in newspapers, at fund-raising offices, in college classrooms and along the corridors of Congress. Through legal challenges, diplomatic maneuvers and public relations jabs, Nicaragua's Marxist-led government and the Reagan Administration have been fighting for the hearts and minds of the international diplomatic community. In this not-at-all-secret war of words, the U.S. last week suffered an embarrassing setback. The 16 judges of the World Court, in a series of firm decisions delivered from...