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...that the Venezuelan Institute of Popular Education (IVEPO) has been used as a conduit for foreign assistance to the Christian Democrats. This became visible last February when Duarte's ill-funded party suddenly began using glossy posters, lavish billboards and slick TV ads. D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) retaliated by running a newspaper ad accusing the Venezuelan government of meddling in Salvadoran affairs. On Saturday, in another full-page ad, ARENA directly charged the CIA with channeling funds to Duarte's campaign...
...World War II, the French decided to reassert their century-old economic and political influence in Viet Nam. But by the mid-1940s they found themselves battling the nationalist ambitions of the Communist Viet Minh and their French-educated leader Ho Chi Minh. By 1954, with Viet Minh control spreading across the countryside, the French chose the valley of Dien Bien Phu to make a decisive stand aimed at checking the Communists. Instead, the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indochina war led to the slaughter of 1,500 Frenchmen and, at home, to the loss of political...
...Salvadorans prepared to head for the polls last Sunday in the second and final round of presidential elections, the candidates launched the usual last-minute blitz of charges and countercharges. But one campaigner found some surprising ammunition. Hugo Barrera, the vice-presidential nominee of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), made public the text of a letter from Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to President Reagan demanding the removal of the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Thomas Pickering. Helms accused Pickering of manipulating the elections, specifically by urging the country's provisional President, Alvaro Maga...
...part, British Secretary for Northern Ireland James Prior expressed doubt that "any dramatic initiative" was possible and scolded the forum for its "nationalist interpretation of past events." Other senior British officials dismissed the options for Irish unification as "shallow" and "naive...
Washington's flagging spirits may receive a boost next Sunday, when El Salvador's voters go to the polls for the presidential runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and Roberto d'Aubuisson of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Almost unnoticed amid the clamor over Washington's covert-action policies, the two rivals have been waging a venomous replay of the first-round campaign that ended on March 25, when Duarte won 43.4% of the 1.5 million votes cast, and D'Aubuisson...