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...made no move to abandon its pressure tactics toward Nicaragua, notably covert support for the contras and the scheduling of nearly continuous U.S. military maneuvers in neighboring Honduras and off the Central American coast. Washington still considered those measures essential for forcing the Sandinistas to halt their export of Marxist revolution, particularly to nearby El Salvador...
...Administration has been asking for four concessions from Nicaragua: 1) an end to the Sandinistas' military ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union, including the removal from the country of some 3,500 Communist military advisers; 2) an end to Nicaraguan support for the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador; 3) curtailment of the country's formidable military arsenal and of any plans to use Nicaragua's Punta Huete airport, still under construction, as a base for advanced military aircraft; 4) fulfillment of Sandinista promises to support political pluralism, meaning reversal of the country's drift toward...
...theory, bankruptcy, like unemployment, ought to be impossible in a Communist country, where the means of production are controlled by the state. But Hungary has been tampering with Marxist economic dogma since 1968, and it now permits the existence of privately run restaurants and other small businesses. In April, further reforms were approved to make Hungarian products more competitive in Western markets...
When black-ruled Zimbabwe was white-ruled Rhodesia, it was a bastion of conservatism and free enterprise. But last week, after four years of independence, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, 60, declared his intention to transform the former British colony into a one-party Marxist state. The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm by the 6,000 delegates and visitors who had gathered at a race track in the capital of Harare for the first congress in 20 years of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The meeting was conducted in the finest leftist tradition, from rhythmic hand clapping...
Time and again, the Reagan Administration has charged Nicaragua with running a secret arms pipeline to the Marxist guerrillas of El Salvador. The insurgents deny the accusation, claiming that they capture most of their arms from U.S.-supported Salvadoran troops. Last week, in a bid to prove its case as Congress considered a request for additional military aid to El Salvador, the Administration opened its intelligence cupboard wider than ever before...