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...plan to keep the Caribbean Basin out of Cuba's orbit by pulling on its economic bootstraps is rooted in what the President likes to call the "magic of the marketplace." Said he: "It is an integrated program that helps our neighbors help themselves, under which creativity and private entrepreneurship and self-help can flourish." The "centerpiece" is a twelve-year exemption from tariffs on exports to the U.S., the first such trading advantage to be given to any region. Although 87% of U.S. imports from the basin are already duty-free, Reagan hopes that extending free trade will...
...active fighters, many of whom are recent converts to the cause. The closest analogue to a North Viet Nam in Central America is Nicaragua, which is not really very close at all. The Sandinista regime there is still young and insecure. True, it is gravitating into the Soviet-Cuban orbit and building a formidable military machine, at least by Central American standards; but that buildup is partly in reaction to the Reagan Administration's implacable hostility. Much as the Sandinistas would like to see their Salvadoran comrades triumph, Nicaragua does not have a common border with El Salvador...
...competitor, including the Soviet Union. On occasion, the exported arms have been instrumental in the defense of democracy, as in Israel. Along with much-needed economic aid, particularly to the many arms-purchasing nations from the Third World, weapons have had some value in drawing nations into the American orbit and cementing alliances...
Like all new spacecraft, including the U.S. space shuttle Columbia, Ariane has had its problems. Its second trial in May 1980 ended with a mid-air explosion. But since then, it has carried four satellites, two per launch, into high earth orbit. The most recent lift-off came in the predawn darkness on Dec. 20, when Ariane awoke the sleeping jungle with a fusillade of flame and thunder. Last week, in Paris, the eleven-nation European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed what Ariane's customers had been eagerly waiting to hear: that the rocket was ready and able to launch...
...necessary to the death. Whether they are within the Soviet orbit or outside it-and whether they are genuinely concerned about making Communist power more humane or efficient-their overriding preoccupation is with preserving that power...