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...past five years. By promoting Messner, 56, an economist, to succeed him as Premier, he also underscored his intention to rebuild Poland's shattered economy while distancing himself from difficulties ahead. Noted one Western diplomat based in Poland: "He can now blame someone else when things get worse." NICARAGUA Friends in Need, Friends Indeed...
...Washington's view, the timing could hardly have been coincidental. Only weeks before President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev were to meet in Geneva to discuss arms-control proposals, Moscow seemed to be stepping up its controversial arms shipments to Nicaragua. Said a high-ranking U.S. National Security Council official: "They are conveying a message to their allies that while they will be talking to us, they will not drop their friends...
Certainly I agree with you that we must preserve a sense of proportion and not panic over the spread of AIDS [WORLD, Oct. 28]. After all, American aid has caused far more deaths in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and no remedy has yet been found for this disease, in spite of efforts in Congress. Graham Greene Antibes, France Middle-Aged...
...example, 86% of those surveyed considered a mutual reduction in nuclear arms a "very important" summit goal, but only 31% thought it likely to happen. More than three-quarters of the survey respondents put a high priority on the two superpowers agreeing to stop interfering in the affairs of Nicaragua and Afghanistan, yet less than one-fifth of them thought such restraint likely to be achieved...
...held; despite widespread reports of voting fraud, Doe imperiously declared himself the winner. At week's end the President announced that Quiwonkpa had been spotted near the radio station and shot dead. Quiwonkpa's bullet-riddled body was displayed at the army barracks where he once had an office. NICARAGUA Beyond the Diplomatic Pale...