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...speech last week, Hinton bluntly warned the government that if it could not control rightist "thugs" it could lose U.S. aid. Said he: "You don't have to kill people in the night. You don't have to decapitate people...
García Márquez has been a vocal irritant to rightist regimes from South Africa to Salvador, counts Socialist French President François Mitterrand as a personal friend, and once donated the $22,000 proceeds of a 1972 literary prize to a small left-wing group in Venezuela. But the author refuses to be categorized. "I have never belonged to a Communist Party," he says, "and my only weapon is my typewriter." That weapon has proved to be a formidable capitalist tool. Solitude alone has 10 million copies in print in 32 languages, and has opened publishers...
...effective promotion of human rights within their countries. By inducing them to change their repressive policies, we would be enhancing freedom and democracy and helping to remove the reasons for revolutions that often erupt among those who suffer from persecution. We might therefore accomplish our purposes without replacing a rightist totalitarian regime with a leftist one of the same oppressive character. A human rights effort would also help strengthen our influence among developing nations that were still in the process of choosing their future friends and trading partners. And it was the right thing...
...people believed him. As a former student activist and Minister of Education, Royo was regarded by the country's all-powerful National Guard as a potentially dangerous leftist, and the ex-President was far from popular with Panama's private sector. The rightist guard leadership had been grumbling especially loudly in recent weeks that changes in the government were long overdue, even though Royo's term in office was not scheduled to expire until 1984. In an interview three weeks ago, National Guard Commander Rubén Dario Paredes mused: "Twenty-four more months...
...that there is a real desire for democracy there." But last week the election results came under attack. An article based on research at the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador suggested that the vote totals had been hyped outrageously. At the same time, the newly elected, rightist-dominated constituent assembly's suspension of a significant part of the U.S.-backed land reform program put the Reagan Administration's request for increased military and economic aid in serious jeopardy in Congress and set the stage for yet another power struggle within El Salvador...