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...watching with special concern the election campaign in El Salvador. President Duarte argues that a decisive victory will give him a popular mandate to extend the regime's reforms???notably a land redistribution program begun in 1980?and rein in the endemic violence that haunts El Salvador, much of it attributed to the government's own security forces. But he faces a tough challenge from ultrarightist candidates in the six-party contest. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer and a fierce extremist, has been campaigning aggressively on an unleash-the-army-and-crush-the-Communists...
...Kennedy heard the French leader explain that it was up to Britain whether or not it joins the Common Market (although European observers suspect that De Gaulle is deep-down opposed to British membership). In his turn, Kennedy explained the principle?financial help for countries that will instigate social reforms???of his ambitious Alianza para el Progreso in Latin America (TIME, Feb. 24). De Gaulle suggested that a Common Market observer would attend the Alianza's first conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay, next month. When Kennedy stressed the need for France and other NATO allies to join in multilateral...
Later that year Congress was plowed with demands for an investigation of the Navy. Such an inquiry, insisted Big-Navy men, would reveal the weak condition of the fleet, would hasten reforms???and new ships. Lobbyist Shearer was in the thick of that agitation. He began issuing what were supposed to be the Navy's military secrets: 1) the U. S. had had a spy aboard a British warship during maneuvers, who reported on secret methods whereby British guns could outrange those of the U. S. fleet; 2) maneuvers in miniature at the Naval War College at Newport had demonstrated...
After the War came the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms???dyarchy.? The Amritsar affair in which hundreds of Indians were wantonly butchered caused Gandhi to begin his noncooperation movement. For a time, Das was heart and soul with Gandhi, and his fervor caused his incarceration for a brief spell at Alipore. Noncoöperation was soon proved to be leading nowhere. Of the 46 million Bengalese, not 10% voluntarily supported the movement; while an insignificant but dangerous section of the population thought non-coöperation the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly...
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