Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must renew serious diplomatic efforts in the region and encourage multinational attempts to forge a Central American peace settlement. Such an approach would be a logical extension of Washington's diplomatic efforts elsewhere. Says Joaquin Villalobos, a Salvadoran rebel leader: "There is a worldwide negotiations process to which the U.S. has committed itself in Afghanistan, Angola and Cambodia. Why can't the Administration play a real role in Central America...
...must face the harsh reality that if the region's current economic conditions prevail, the outlook ahead is for more poverty, more instability, more violence. The U.S. might spearhead an international consortium of aid that would be applied to social reform and economic growth. The key here is to address the debilitating poverty that is endemic to the region. Only then is there hope of starving popular support for Central America's Communist insurgencies...
Self-assured, quick witted and highly conservative, Lott, 47, has represented the state's relatively prosperous Gulf Coast region in the House since 1972. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, he defended Richard Nixon against impeachment charges. By 1980 his ability to keep friends while taking hard-line positions brought him election as Republican whip. Campaigning for Dowdy, Stennis argued that Mississippi would lose clout, especially in keeping its many defense jobs, with two Republicans in a Democrat-controlled Senate. Lott had an apt reply: "We don't need two Senators who are going to cancel out each other...
Tournament News: Connecticut and Boston University battled for the New England region championship last weekend, with the Terriers taking the title, 3-1. Changes in the tournament format--it is now played out according to seedings, rather than regions--mean that B.U. will travel to Indiana for its second-round contest...
...Williams lost her seat in the 1983 general election when redistricting made her region "unwinnable" for a Social Democrat, another episode in what she calls a "snakes and ladders" political career. "There was always an element of risk," she says of her two stints in Parliament as a liberal representing marginal to conservative districts...