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...been discussing the recent capture of Eugene Hasenfus by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. I had expressed the opinion that the man was obviously trying to overthrow their government and so deserved whatever he got. Rutger disagreed...
...unrest surrounding the sudden overthrow of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's regime in February has kept travelers away from Haiti, and last week the 89-year-old hotel closed its doors. All its furnishings are being put up for sale, but modern-day Haitians do not seem particularly interested in relics from a bygone era. The brightly painted wooden nameplates that identified the Anne Bancroft Suite and other celebrity rooms went for $4 each, and the famed mahogany bar remains unsold despite its modest asking price...
Nicaraguan officials have claimed the supply operation was part of a CIA effort to help the Contras, who have been fighting for four years to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government...
When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Shah of Iran drove the Asian-crescent drug trade through Pakistan, the number of heroin addicts there went from virtually nil in 1980 to some 650,000 abusers today. (The U.S.S.R. is not unscathed by the global epidemic; Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan are said to trade their weapons for opium and hashish...
...forthcoming book The Rise of the Counter- Establishment, "sees itself as a counter to the liberal establishment, which includes not only liberals but traditional Republicans. Institution by institution, the conservatives have built up an infrastructure in the shadow of the liberal establishment, to combat and finally to overthrow it. The think tanks are obviously an important part of the movement." Blumenthal calls the growth of this conservative intellectual elite "the most dramatic political development in recent American history...