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...them to play along with the Contadora plan, failed to compute the consequences for its allies in the region. Under the Contadora treaty, those countries could be denied U.S. military help. Washington has since 1981 supplied arms to the antigovernment contra guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua. In Honduras, the Big Pine maneuvers amount to a continuing large-scale U.S. military presence. Earlier this month, Honduras and its conservative neighbors started objecting to Contadora proposals, probably precluding any agreement before spring...
...black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair on the tail of an angry cat"). Borland's concern for conservation is all the more effective for its understatement, as when he quietly notes that the scientist who measured the age of a California bristlecone pine at approximately 5,000 years cut it down in the process, thus destroying "the oldest living thing on earth, so far as we know at this time...
...shot back. The landing at Puerto Castilla on Honduras' northern coast marked the beginning of a seven-day training mission with 700 Honduran troops. It was part of a series of joint military exercises involving the U.S. and its staunchly anti-Communist ally. Though billed as routine, Big Pine II, as the exercises are called, reflected a major buildup of U.S. military might aimed largely at intimidating Honduras' southern neighbor, Marxist-led Nicaragua...
...Salvador. The four nations that form the so-called Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) announced last week that all the region's governments, including even a wary Nicaragua, had agreed on a schedule for substantive discussions about a comprehensive Central American peace plan. If the Big Pine II exercises and Grenada invasion have encouraged Nicaragua's cooperation, said a State Department official tartly, "so much the better...
...Pine said the United States government is stepping up maistance to the Ferdinand Marcos regimes in the Philippines, despite its violation of U.S. human rights policies...