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...legislative obstacles were only the start of Reagan's Central American headaches last week. In Honduras, army efforts to move the contras out of camps near the Nicaraguan border threatened to impede the rebels' efforts to weaken Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Nicaragua, Sandinista officials irritated Washington both by seeking to set up their own talks with Honduras and by announcing an oil deal with the Soviet Union. In Costa Rica, the Reagan Administration came under increasing criticism for sending Green Berets to a base...
...Vatican has long been concerned about Boff's 1981 book, Church: Charism & Power, and last September he was summoned to Rome for interrogation. In a forceful March "notification," the Vatican rejected the book's Marxist- influenced examination of the Roman Catholic Church. Boff theorized about the sacraments as consumer products controlled by the bishops and priests. His ideas, said Rome, "endanger" the faith...
Boff insisted last week, "I am not a Marxist," and said he would obey the order. One official at the Vatican's doctrinal congregation explained that the directive of silence was issued so that Boff might rethink his ideas. Said this prelate of the Boff-Vatican confrontation: "If after a year he maintains the same point of view, then the struggle will be fierce...
Allende, a former journalist, has even scored a success in her native Chile, despite the fact that the present government came to power after the 1973 assassination of her uncle, Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. Although the book is sympathetic to the dead leader, Chile's ruling junta has permitted the novel to pass through its stringent censorship...
...Palma last October was called a historic step toward peace in El Salvador. The second public session, in the village of Ayagualo in November, was considered a major disappointment. Since then, Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte has said little about peace talks between his government and the Marxist-led guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. But last week Duarte casually told journalists that his government was taking cautious steps to resume the stalled dialogue...