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...producing signs of an opportunity for diplomatic movement. Harassed by U.S.-backed guerrillas operating along its borders, the Marxist-led Sandinista government of Nicaragua gave subtle hints that it might be willing to make a deal. The suggestion was made by Sandinista Leaders Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Sergio Ramirez Mercado in interviews with TIME (see box), and was embedded in the usual condemnations of U.S. policy. Ortega and Ramirez not only restated Nicaragua's longstanding willingness to link the two issues in negotiations, but also reiterated their desire for such a dialogue with fresh urgency. They also offered perhaps...
...power sharing that some leftists in El Salvador are seeking. Some U.S. officials would like to see the eventual collapse of the Managuan government, which has become increasingly totalitarian in its domestic policies, and increasingly unpopular. Certainly that is what the Sandinistas believe is the main Administration motive. Said Ramirez: "If he could do it, Reagan would finish us off with a neutron bomb. But he can't, so he's using the contras instead." For its part, the White House last week continued to emphasize that its policies are within the scope of congressional restrictions, in that...
...addition, the contras have been stepping up the frequency and ferocity of their raids in recent weeks. There is fear of more attacks as the counterrevolutionaries try to establish permanent bases on Nicaraguan soil. "That is a terrible prospect," says the Sandinistas' Ramirez. "Already this year we have had 500 military and civilian casualties in the fighting with the contras. In the U.S. the proportional loss would be about 50,000 people...
Even nature seems to have turned against Mexico this year. More than half of the country's 31 states are suffering from drought, adding further to the human misery. In Oaxaca, Peasant Farmer Manuel Ramirez Santiago, 30, explains that he has given up entirely on working the land. Instead, he has become a street-side Popsicle vendor. Agricultural experts estimate that on a nationwide scale, Mexico will have to import 10.5 million tons of basic grains by the end of 1983 to compensate for the natural disaster...
Last spring, Dan Ramirez '83 and Isabel Zambrano '85, co-chairman of the MEChA Course and Faculty Committee, spoke to the chairmen of each of the departments that offered courses pertinent to Chicano-Boricua studies and obtained permission to cross reference the courses with American Studies...