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Jean's defection confronts Gerard and his friends with a vexing dilemma. Although they fulminate at length against the predatory Crimond, they are bound to him by an old pact. Years earlier, they had formed a committee to subsidize Crimond so that he would be free to write what everyone then thought would be an important book of political philosophy. "We were all Marxists once," Gerard notes, but times and beliefs have changed. Still, their humane, liberal inclinations prevent the companions from going back on their word. As Gerard says, "There's nothing we can do except curse privately that...
...Sandinistas downed another craft last weekend, this one a DC-6 contra-supply plane, which resulted in at least four deaths. The one captured crew member, Alejandro Sanchez, confirmed Nicaraguan charges that contra-supply operations continue to operate out of Honduras' Swan Island, in defiance of the peace pact. He claimed that the entire crew had been Nicaraguan except for one Colombian. But the Sandinistas charged that U.S. citizens had been on the plane...
...that some members of the nine-member Sandinista directorate feel the same way. Since the five Central American Presidents signed Arias' peace pact last August, every conciliatory gesture made by Ortega in the international arena has been followed quickly by a harsh gesture at home that reminds the internal opposition not to push the limits of reform too fast. And each time the boot came down, rumors flew that the moderate and hard-line comandantes were in deep disagreement. Last week brought new evidence of strains. As Ortega decreed an end to the state of emergency, five more opposition members...
...With their current military treaty due to expire in 1991, U.S. and Filipino negotiators are planning to open talks in April on a possible renewal. The pact covers Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base, the two largest American military installations outside the U.S. The Philippines depends heavily on the $266 million in U.S. aid and $164 million in local earnings that the bases provide each year. Even so, Philippines Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus has warned that any new treaty would require the U.S. to accept "new conditions" that would ban nuclear weapons from the bases. A similar...
...humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring." But the Soviets could not tolerate that measure of autonomy in their satellite, any more than they could abide Hungary in 1956 or, later, Poland in 1981. In August 1968, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague and crushed the hope. Not long after, Dubcek ended up working obscurely for the Forestry Administration in western Slovakia...