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...humble brown mess at the bottom of his cooking pan. There must be times in this sunny town when the laughs come hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma of color reporting. Color is pretty, misery is not. Susan Meiselas followed the war against Somoza in Nicaragua. Jean-Marie Simon covered life in Guatemala during the worst years of military repression in the early 1980s. When men with automatic weapons stalk the streets, how do you keep the pinks and greens of Central America from trivializing the image? Meiselas and Simon do it by letting both elements -- beauty...
Administration leaks mentioned three of Nicaragua's neighbors -- Honduras, Panama and El Salvador -- as possible training sites and sanctuaries. But as soon as the speculations surfaced, it became clear that opposition to some of the Administration's anti-Sandinista schemes came not just from Congress but also from Honduras, Panama and El Salvador...
...three sternly declined suggestions from the U.S. that they provide training grounds for the contras. The rebuffs were not altogether surprising. None of the three want to get dragged incidentally into a possible U.S.-Nicaragua war. Nor do they want to be caught on the losing side if, as they strongly expect, the contras are defeated by the Sandinistas...
...have been transformed into an efficient and indispensable component of the nation's military. Increasingly, the Pentagon is calling on the Guard for national service. During the past few years, Guard units have improved roads and bridges in Honduras in indirect support of the U.S.-backed contras fighting in Nicaragua. When President Reagan sent U.S. aircraft into harm's way, Guard pilots flew the tankers that refueled the American F-111s bound for the strike against Libya. The Guard also helped rescue American students in Grenada. The upgrading of the Guard stems from the post-Viet Nam decision...
...rebel troops. In its snug maroon auditorium just a few blocks from the Capitol, it held an all-day seminar for congressional staffers. The guests of honor: two top contra officers and a Nicaraguan opposition journalist. A week later Heritage issued a brisk nine-page report titled Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection, copies of which were distributed by hand to all Congressmen and to targeted staff members. Heritage's pro-contra blitz was on. The reign of the pensive, passive, pipe-smoking Washington think tank is under assault. These venerable research institutions, which sprang up in the first decades of this...