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...spite of the magnitude of his victory, Chadian President Hisene Habre still has problems to solve. Foremost among them: he must reach an accord with Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei, a former President of Chad himself and Gaddafi ally whose forces last year joined with Habre's to help defeat the Libyans. But after an unproductive meeting last week between Goukouni and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who is trying to mediate between the two leaders, the President and the rebel commander reportedly remain far apart on issues ranging from Chad's provisional constitution to Goukouni's role...
With the contra military effort in full swing last week, moderate Rebel Leader Alfonso Robelo said he would not seek re-election to the directorate of the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the umbrella group that oversees contra operations. Robelo's move, coupled with last month's resignation of fellow Moderate Arturo Cruz, could greatly strengthen the political role of Adolfo Calero, leader of the main contra military organization, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. Amid the swirling political crosscurrents, TIME Correspondent Ricardo Chavira visited several contra bases last week in Nicaragua. His report...
Saturday night on Bourbon Street, after the Indiana-UNLV game. Indiana won, and ten thousand delirious fraternity boys in red T shirts were in the street, drinking heavily. Here and where we saw more subdued though equally dipsomaniac Runnin' Rebel fans, but the evening was for crewcut Hoosiers from the cornfields. Television crews were out, and every few blocks we saw big knots of people, all struggling to get an alcohol flushed face or at least a clenched fist into evening news immortality. Impassive mounted police stood at the corners, staring from under plexiglass visors while the horses suffered raucous...
SUNDAY WAS INDEED a happy Easter for Argentinians, whose president, Raul Alfonsin, convinced rebel army officers to abort a plan to launch an offensive against the nations's still fragile democracy. For four days, the officers had plotted in a military compound outside the capital. Alfonsin proved that even in blood-soaked Latin America, the power of suasion can exceed the power of arms. The peaceful victory offers others in a war-torn world an eloquent lesson...
Investigators say they have traced much of the contra money trail. According to sources, "every penny" of the contributions North helped raise from private donors reached the Nicaraguan rebels. Contrary to reports last December, none of the solicited money was funneled to campaigns against anti- contra members of Congress. While leaders of the Nicaraguan rebel forces claim they never received any of the proceeds from the Iranian arms sales, investigators think a substantial amount of the earnings did indeed drop into contra coffers...