Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irony. When the five Central American Presidents gathered last week in the resort town of Tela in northern Honduras, their meeting place was a seaside compound once owned by the United Fruit Co., the U.S. multinational concern that long represented the essence of gringo imperialism in the region. There, the Presidents* negotiated the dissolution of the Nicaraguan contras, a force that to many Central Americans symbolized U.S. arrogance and interference during the 1980s. When the Presidents emerged from three days of deliberations, they had signed an agreement on a specific series of steps to demobilize the contras within the next...
...called Tela Declaration was a gesture that carried all the moral authority of the region's leaders but none of the military force that might be needed to make it stick. Its realization hinges on the "voluntary" cooperation of the contras and assigns responsibility for implementation to the United Nations and the Organization of American States...
...nationalist drift in the Baltics has aroused fear among the region's sizable Russian minority. When the Estonian supreme soviet voted last week to impose a two-year residency requirement for voters in local elections, supporters of the pro-Russian Intermovement and Joint Council of Work Collectives denounced the measures, charging that they consigned recent Russian immigrants to a political "pale of settlement." At least 10,000 workers joined strikes at some 30 enterprises. Since most of the affected plants are under the control of Moscow ministries, many Estonians viewed the labor unrest as another in a series of provocations...
...finds that the Israeli leaders have not changed in the last 20 years, since Israel became a major power in the region. They do not recognize that Israel is strong enough to compromise, and their policies are shielded from criticism by defensive references to the Holocaust...
...through these two recommendations Friedman relates to the reader what he considers the most important lesson he learned in the region: the Middle Eastern attitude that "tomorrow can be different from yesterday...