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What is Julie Christie doing in this Argentine snooze, when she ought to be igniting bigger, better movies? It is, we guess, an act of both faith and good works for this star with a restless conscience. Some social spirits visit Nicaragua or link hands across America; Christie lends her wattage to a chancy project with a woman director. In the process she gives acting lessons to a diligent but amateur Argentine theatrical troupe. At 45, Christie can appear worn, her face sculpted in suffering, yet on her it looks beautiful. And she is still the consummate actress...
...money that Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi are howling for may have gone through, or perhaps stuck to, the hands of other, still more shadowy arms merchants. The Reagan Administration has said that North diverted some of the Iran arms money to the contras in Nicaragua. Presumably the funds went through a network of arms dealers, supposedly operating with private donations, who supplied weapons to the anti-Marxist rebels all through the two-year period during which Congress had forbidden direct or indirect U.S. military aid. As far as anyone can tell, the contras seem to have got very little...
Since 1982, civil liberties in Nicaragua have been sharply curbed by a state of emergency called to meet the contra threat. The 202-article charter champions many of those suspended liberties, including freedom of speech and assembly and the right to strike. Immediately after the signing of the constitution, Ortega reimposed the state of emergency. Erick Ramirez, leader of the opposition Social Christian Party, has dismissed the document as a "tool of propaganda for foreign consumption...
Should the contras be defeated in battle or expelled from Honduras, or both, Reagan's strategists see the bleakest of choices. Some warn that the U.S. might have to consider an American invasion of Nicaragua in the year ahead. The alternative would be an unsatisfactory political settlement with the Sandinistas. Some strategists sound as if they are not quite sure which would be worse...
Only Lucy Nichols is no longer a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, and the person she and Jack are retrieving is not dead. Amelita Sosa has in fact been smuggled by Lucy out of Nicaragua, footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras...