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Members of the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA) will leave for Nicaragua today to conduct a three-day long government simulation summit for high school students, the only one of its kind in Latin America...
...Starbucks and Proctor and Gamble are making enormous profits.) Current economic conditions hold potential for even greater hardships for impoverished coffee farmers, many of whom can barely afford to educate their children or provide health care and food for their families. Extreme poverty in coffee producing countries such as Nicaragua has led to massive urban migrations, and the dependence of many countries on coffee as a commodity means that the fate of not only small farmers but the political stability of entire nations is at stake...
DIED. EDWARD BOLAND, 90, influential Democratic Congressman whose amendments opposing the Reagan Administration's support for rebels in Nicaragua set the stage for the Iran-contra affair; in Springfield, Mass...
...Thai support for the Khmer Rouge following Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia. Compared with Pol Pot's regime, the Taliban is a model of humanitarianism. And at the start of a global war on terrorism, the U.S. won't want to remember its sponsorship of the contras in Nicaragua; or, as it's courting support from the most populous Muslim country on the planet, Indonesia, to be reminded of its 1958 support for the rebellion against Indonesia's infuriatingly nonaligned President Sukarno...
...weapons buildup and the maintenance of substantial standing armies by the major powers. They never went to armed battle against one another. Still, it was hardly a pacific era: wars in Indochina, civil strife in Indonesia, the missile crisis in Cuba, deadly conflicts in places like Grenada, Mozambique and Nicaragua?all were cold war battles...