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Arafat was not the only revolutionary superstar in Nicaragua last week. Cuban President Fidel Castro toured the country for a week after an initial appearance at Managua's anniversary rally. He did not appear to have come to preach Marxist revolution. Instead, his low-key visit was marked by uncharacteristic restraint. "We are here humbly to learn and to be influenced," he said...
...took over, the Sandinistas have demonstrated a surprising restraint of their own. They have so far shown little inclination to intervene in such volatile neighboring countries as Guatemala and El Salvador. On the domestic front as well, the Sandinistas have exhibited a degree of moderation that has belied their Marxist slogans. Their strongest efforts appear to have been devoted to a remarkable teaching campaign that has reduced illiteracy from 50% to about...
...reconstruction plan. The Carter Administration has offered $156.6 million, including a $75 million package pledged last November but appropriated by Congress only a month ago. The embarrassing seven-month delay was due to a protracted debate led by Republican Congressman Robert Bauman of Maryland, who railed against aiding a Marxist-leaning government. The modest amount of the U.S. package, moreover, was hardly an impressive show of support from so wealthy a nation, as Castro was able to point out to his Nicaraguan hosts...
...with most of Brazil's 345 bishops at Fortaleza, he told them they had the "right and duty to practice a social pastorate." But he firmly attached three conditions: there must be no sacrifice of spiritual mission, no "participation in political party activity" by the clergy and no Marxist "concentration of all in the hands of the state." Said the Pope: "We are not experts in politics or economics . . . We are ministers of the Gospel...
Many of the magazine's most touted coups, such as the Pinto and dangerous-exports stories, were written by Publisher Mark Dowie, 41, who will depart next month to take a trip around the world. His replacement is Jacques Marchand, 42, publisher of Marxist Perspectives (circ. 6,000), a scholarly quarterly based in New York City. Marchand, who will be paid $37,500 a year, aims to boost advertising but admits, "Nobody is ever going to get rich from this magazine...