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...first time that a Peace Corps volunteer had ever been raped by members of the armed forces of the host country. The incident, though not reported in the American press, was widely reported in the Nicaraguan papers. The woman explained that normally she would not have made the incident public, but "it happens every day to Nicaraguan women...
...late 1976, Somoza's image in this country had so deteriorated that he hired the New York public relations firm of Norman, Lawrence, Patterson, and Farrell, Inc. to shore it up. And although the State Department cited the Nicaraguan government for several human rights violations in the early days of President Carter's May 1977 crusade, 12 million dollars in economic aid in 1977 and 1978 were nevertheless added to a total of more than $300 million that Nicaragua has received from the U.S. government since the second World War. The reason was that some of Somoza's powerful friends...
Last week the editors of TIME brought together seven foreign policy experts, some with long years of public service (see box), for a wide-ranging discussion on the upheavals in the crisis area and on what the U.S. could do to strengthen its influence there. The experts found signs of alarming weakness in supposedly friendly lands, and they found some encouraging elements in countries supposedly alienated from the U.S. They were convinced that the currents of change were running more swiftly than the Administration believed, and they were afraid, some more than others, that the U.S. was failing...
Abroad, said Sisco, "the perception of the U.S. in the world today is that we have become paralyzed as a result of the Viet Nam syndrome." However, Sisco finds the public mood changing more rapidly than policymakers realize: "I am absolutely convinced that the Viet Nam syndrome is not broadly shared in the U.S., that the American people went through a psychological trauma at the gas station in 1974, and they are damned tired of appearing to be pushed around. I believe the American people have largely put Viet Nam behind them: they know what we are talking about when...
...later this month when existing three-month contracts are about to expire. For the U.S., which relies heavily on Venezuelan imports, the increases already announced could add from 3? to 6? to the cost of residual fuel oil used to generate electricity. Heating costs for factories, schools and other public buildings will rise...