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...Representatives issued a statement noting the sacrifices of the hunger strikers and pointing out the "paradoxical" gap "between the public will and public policy on the question of aid to the contras." If in the near future the secret war with Managua proves as costly to the Reagan Administration's credibility as it did last week, such gestures may create enough of a clamor to force even the President and his hard-line advisers on Central America to pay heed. --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by John Borrell/Managua and David Halevy/Washington
...strong supporter of the Duarte government, was also quick to respond. From Reykjavik, where he was preparing to meet Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, President Reagan sent Duarte a Saturday telegram promising to help "in any way we can." U.S. officials immediately released some $25,000 in initial aid and rushed supplies from Panama to the stricken country. Governments and private groups worldwide pledged help that ranged from medical teams to search dogs...
...different ideas. Apparently hoping to capitalize on the U.S.-Soviet deal that resulted in the release of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff, the Iranian-backed group on Oct. 3 released a videotape of two of the six remaining American hostages, Terry Anderson and David Jacobsen. Both men charged that the Reagan Administration was not pursuing their release as vigorously as it had sought Daniloff s. Three days later the kidnapers released a videotape of three French hostages...
Scarcely a week after Congress overrode President Reagan's veto and imposed a new set of economic sanctions against South Africa, the government of State President P.W. Botha retaliated. It had always warned that the first people to suffer from stronger sanctions would be the blacks of South Africa and neighboring countries, and last week it took steps to fulfill that prediction...
...turned out, there were few parallels with last spring's disaster at Chernobyl. For one thing, Mikhail Gorbachev notified Ronald Reagan of the accident the day after it happened, winning praise from the President and the State Department for his candor. More important, Soviet officials announced that there was no danger of radioactive contamination of the environment--a claim quickly supported by U.S. experts, who took samplings of air and water around the site...