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Independent since 1967, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen has spent the past 20 years in the Soviet orbit. The withdrawal of Soviet aid, plus the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, led South Yemen to accept an offer to unite with the Yemen Arab Republic, its northern neighbor...
...Boycott Folgers coffee. What it brews is misery and death." Narrated by actor Ed Asner, that TV attack ad has sparked a battle between a San Francisco-based peace group called Neighbor to Neighbor and corporate giant Procter & Gamble, whose Folgers brand is the top-selling U.S. coffee. The 30- sec. spot, which aired earlier this month on CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston, accuses Procter & Gamble of prolonging the ten-year civil war in El Salvador by buying Salvadoran coffee beans, the country's leading export, and thereby supporting the right-wing government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
Such support is anathema to Neighbor to Neighbor, which opposes U.S. policy in El Salvador. The protest group, with a national membership of 52,000, argues that El Salvador's $400 million worth of annual coffee exports mainly benefits a handful of wealthy families and helps finance death squads and military atrocities against civilians. "There's blood on that coffee," says Fred Ross, the group's director. "Action by corporations like Procter & Gamble could send economic shock waves into El Salvador and force a negotiated settlement...
...least, that message will continue to be heard. In Worcester, Mass., independent station WHLL plans to run the Neighbor to Neighbor spot this week. Says Michael Volpe, the station's general manager: "This has a lot more to do with First Amendment rights than with coffee and advertising. If you take away the right to run an ad, you're losing something...
When Dan Quayle was starting high school in Arizona, his neighbor Barry Goldwater was beginning his race for the presidency. When Richard Nixon ran for re-election in 1972, Quayle's father decided that Nixon, like Eisenhower, had betrayed the conservative movement -- so Quayle pere supported the insurgent Republican right-wing candidate John Ashbrook. When Quayle entered the Senate, it was as the beneficiary of a conservative political-action- committee blitz that knocked off five liberal Senators that year (including his opponent, Birch Bayh of Indiana). Quayle's whole (short) adult life was spent cocooned in the modern conservative movement...