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LATIN AMERICA. East German largesse has been concentrated on Nicaragua, where the revolution last year provided an obvious target of political opportunity. Barely a week after Dictator Anastasio Somoza had fled the country, East German medical and economic assistance teams were in Managua establishing an early foothold. As one East German doctor admitted at the time: "We do not leave political considerations aside." Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto has called the GDR a "natural ally" of the Sandinista revolution, and last month a high-ranking delegation from Managua spent several days in East Berlin to sign a series...
...most densely populated countries in Central America, El Salvador has been caught up in a deadly spiral of violence that threatens to tear the country apart, much as it did neighboring Nicaragua. So far this year, at least 700 people have been killed-more than in all 1979. Last week was a particularly bloody one. It began with a call for a 24-hour general strike by leftists who hope to bring down the country's ruling junta. Troops and police battled guerrillas in a daylong orgy of violence in the capital, San Salvador, that left, by official count...
...Paris Metro line. Even when Vincennes opened in 1970, the campus was Sixties Squalid. Today the school is an ill-repaired set of buildings and classrooms with barely a wall not defaced by leftist posters or spray-painted slogans: SHAH ASSASSIN! I HATE COPS. SOLIDARITY WITH NICARAGUA...
...that civil defense contingency plans for evacuating 11 million people from the New York metropolitan area are laughable. During an inventory of the city's 1950s-era nuclear fallout shelters, it was discovered that millions of tins of biscuits, part of emergency food supplies, had been shipped to Nicaragua in 1972 after a severe earthquake there. Dope addicts had rifled painkilling narcotics from first-aid kits...
...arms in increasingly large numbers, presumably to forestall the Soviet menace. Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, already have the requisite bucks and simply extend the payments over a long period. For smaller outposts of democracy, such as the Marcos government in the Phillippines and the Somoza exregime in Nicaragua, the U.S. government either grants military aid, which is used for arms purchases, or extends a line of credit for 10 per cent of the purchase, and allows the remainder to be repaid as a long-term loan. Recent U.S. beneficiaries of such arrangements include Turkey, which has occupied Cyprus illegally...