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Nonetheless, Duarte seems to be winning the confidence of the business community. Once considered objectionably socialist on economic issues, the President has moved closer to the center. Planning Minister Fidel Chávez Mena has promised to consult business and labor in drawing up a recovery plan. In the atmosphere of stability produced by Duarte's election, entrepreneurs are opening new businesses again. Many businessmen still distrust Duarte, but others are willing to give him a chance. "The President today has the respect he didn't have before," says Eduardo Menéndez, the head of a plastic...
...timid balancers. Their power is in their pocketbooks, not their guns." The Saudis can avoid a clash as long as the Iranians limit their attacks to tankers at sea. If they hit ships in the vicinity of the Saudi port of Ras Tanura or the Kuwaiti port of Mena al Ahmadi, a Saudi or Kuwaiti response might be unavoidable. Even more serious would be an Iranian attack on Saudi or Kuwaiti desalinization or electric power plants...
...reformist military officers ousted Molina's successor, General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena. A year later Duarte became the junta President. He helped begin a sweeping land reform and the nationalization of local banks and export industries, thereby further alienating the oligarchy. Conservatives began calling Duarte a "watermelon"-Christian Democratic green on the outside, red on the inside-especially during the recent election campaign, when he declared that he favored a national "dialogue." What Duarte meant was that he would seek to create a climate in which any rebels who wanted to reject violence could return to take part...
During a visit to Washington last week, Fidel Chávez Mena, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, expressed hope that the case will be resolved by late January, when the Administration must once again certify that the embattled country remains eligible for American aid. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador, however, are not optimistic that the trial will persuade Congress that El Salvador has bettered its human rights record. Members of Congress have their eye on another case in which justice has proved less than speedy: accusations that high-ranking army officers ordered the murder of two U.S. land...
...professed Israeli eagerness to reach a settlement, the two-day session at Cairo's elegant old Mena House hotel brought no tangible progress. Along with U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis, the participants dutifully avowed their "dedication to the Camp David framework" in their closing statement. Still, Egypt and Israel remained as far apart as ever on the issue that has bedeviled the talks from the beginning: the size, scope and powers of the Palestinian body that is to govern the occupied territories once they become autonomous. The Israelis conceive of that body...