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...equally skeptical about that prospect. Last week the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives used parliamentary procedures for the third time to put off a vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to cut off funding for the Administration's ill-concealed covert support for armed Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries who oppose their country's leftist government. Clement Zablocki, chairman of the House committee, called the latest maneuverings at State "not helpful" in the long-term effort to prevent an anti-Administration vote. Argued liberal Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts: "The Administration is clearly in violation...
Honduran military leaders are particularly concerned about a marked buildup in the Nicaraguan army, which now numbers 25,000, compared with the 11,500-member Honduran force. They point out that the Nicaraguans have stationed tanks within easy striking distance of Honduras, while Honduran troops have been kept away from the border. The Sandinista junta has made no secret of its interest in making trouble for the U.S.-backed government in Tegucigalpa. In April, Nicaragua's government-controlled press gave prominent coverage to the founding of a new coalition of Honduran guerrillas, the National Unity Directorate of the Revolutionary...
...arms. We are also seeing a disproportionate growth in the Sandinista armed forces. In a period of three years, they have grown more than threefold [to 27,000]. I do not believe they are increasing their military just for parade purposes. When you think about the fact that the Nicaraguan economy is in as deplorable a situation as ours, you wonder where the money for the armed forces came from...
...curricular advice today, Harvard shrinks away from setting up new institutions--a common practice of the B-School in the 50s and 60s. The expense of setting up new institutions, coupled with the instability of some Third World countries, has prompted Harvard to opt for more temporary programs. The Nicaraguan Business School, built in 1962, turned into a hospital for several months during the early part of the revolution. The Iranian business school, opened in 1972, closed in June 1980 by the decree of the Ayatollah Khomeini. These incidents make two-week seminars seem more appealing...
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami...