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While continuing to fight for the Saudi deal on Capitol Hill, the Administration also moved rapidly to send a strong signal of support to both Egypt and its beleaguered neighbor, the Sudan, which is threatened by the presence of 7,000 Libyan troops in nearby Chad. After conferring in Cairo with Mubarak and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri following Sadat's funeral, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the U.S. would speed up the delivery of arms already promised to Egypt and the Sudan. In addition, Washington last week dispatched two AW ACS planes from the U.S. to Egypt...
During daylight, Kabul seems almost like a city at peace. Almost, but not quite. There are reminders, some constant and subtle, others sudden and dramatic, that this is a land at war with itself and with its giant neighbor to the north, and that the war is closing in on the capital...
...furnish the stage on which his strange cast converge, Stone takes his cue from Joseph Conrad, who set Nostromo in an imaginary South American republic called Costa-guana. Stone squeezes Tecan and its more progressive neighbor Compostela into a fictional space between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then provides topography and politics. The land here is racked periodically by earthquakes; when Holliwell arrives in Tecan, he senses the tremors of revolution as well. The local dictator, propped up by U.S. support and sadistic National Guardsmen wearing reflecting sunglasses, may have finally pushed his brutalized subjects too far. He is driving...
...northern counterpart, The Dartmouth Review. Though richly funded by alumni, the Review editors have been unable to rise much above the level of the nation's worst right wing scandal sheets. Taunting of homosexuals and racial minorities is commonplace in their pages; all too often it resembles its foul neighbor, the Manchester Union-Leader. Such ugliness perpetuates the worst of conservatism, and obscures the ideas that count. It is hard to think about liberty when it wears the guise of snickering prejudice...
...impact of the Cairo tragedy softened, so did the language. Both Haig and Egyptian officials on closer examination declared that direct Libyan involvement seemed unlikely. But Libyan jubilation over the killing heightened U.S. perceptions of Egypt's next-door neighbor as an outlaw state and an increasingly bothersome trouble spot. Said a U.S. State Department official: "Libya is beginning to rival the Persian Gulf as the focus of strategic concern in the region. Now that Egypt, the only certain counterweight to Libya, is under a cloud, that concern can only increase...