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There is now vague talk of a "Wisconsin solution." Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramirez may travel this week to Wisconsin, which has been Nicaragua's sister state since the early '60s and happens to be Hasenfus' home state as well. The hope is that some sisterly arrangement can be worked out so that Hasenfus will be back in Wisconsin for Christmas...
...smoke to clear, then said, "Gentlemen, the meeting continues." In the 1870s the Communards executed 60 hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, during a two-month insurrection that took at least 20,000 lives. A century later the famed Middle East terrorist Carlos, also known as Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, used Paris as a base and once killed two French secret-service men and a Lebanese accomplice in a shoot-out on the Left Bank...
Last week, however, the office of Mexican Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez virtually conceded that mistreatment had indeed taken place. It named eleven Jalisco police officers suspected of "abusing authority and inflicting injuries" in the Cortez case. At the same time, though, Mexico sent a sharp note to Washington contending that Cortez had overstepped his authority. Angered by the charge, U.S. officials replied that Cortez had acted in accordance with well-known and accepted DEA practices. They bitterly pointed out that none of the eleven officers had yet been arrested. Above all, they found Mexico's continuing show of defensiveness...
...Cortez controversy is souring ties that were seemingly improved by the Washington meeting two weeks ago between Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and Ronald Reagan. U.S. officials last week called on the "highest levels of the Mexican government" to investigate. Mexican Attorney General Garcia Ramirez is probing the Cortez incident and has promised to issue a report...
...backed rebels are responsible for the destruction of schools, hospitals and the economy. The warm affection that most Nicaraguans feel for North Americans does not extend to the Reagan Administration, which Nicaraguans believe is preparing for an invasion of their country. "The U.S. military aggression," says Eric Ramirez, president of the opposition Social Christian Party, "gives oxygen for the Sandinistas to survive...