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...operation has already had unfortunate side effects on Honduras' fragile democracy. After years of military rule, the Hondurans elected Roberto Suazo Cordova last January as their first civilian President since 1971. The troubles in neighboring countries have given Chief of the Armed Forces Gustavo Alvarez Martinez an excuse to extend his authority. He has won changes in the constitution that broaden his power, and is using the threat of a Sandinista invasion to bolster his military forces and consolidate his power within the country...
Most, like Ernie Knox, just die. Cleveland Denny fell in an early preliminary before the first Roberto Duran-Sugar Ray Leonard fight in Montreal two years ago. Most of the ringside seats were empty, and many people who were there did not look up. The men who fight are not the kind people look out for. Nobody really cares...
...Roberto Duran bullied him and took his title in June of 1980, but Leonard retrieved it five months later. Duran, after shivering all his great lightweight career in the shade of Muhammad Ali's shadow, came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized...
...March. Several reports by human rights monitoring groups show murders by the military have increased over the last few months. Land reform and other positive steps undertaken by the Duarte regime that preceded the present government have been stopped, and in some cases reversed. And extreme right leader Roberto d'Aubuisson has said he will not talk with the guerilla opposition...
...pressing for the national reconciliation that many elements of Salvadoran society are now ready to consider, Washington has encountered yet another daunting obstacle: the fanatical intransigence of Roberto d'Aubuisson's ARENA party. Although D'Aubuisson indicated only a month ago that he accepted the prospect of bringing the rebellious left back into the country's political fold by 1984, some observers suspect that he has lost control of the more extreme members of his party. Says a U.S. official: "Every time D'Aubuisson does something responsible, the crazies around him get upset...