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...issue of land reform, the report danced over tricky political ground. Admitting that the country's newly elected Constituent Assembly, led by its right-wing president, Roberto d'Aubuisson, has tried to undermine the reform laws, the study nonetheless contended that 10,000 provisional land titles had been handed over to former renters and sharecroppers in the past six months. President Magaña, moreover, has led a campaign to return the land to farmers illegally evicted from their new holdings: since June, according to the report, some 2,000 families have returned to their farms...
...scene of the region's other conflict, Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart notes a jarring contrast: "In East Beirut, there is scarcely a soldier to be seen. West Beirut is an armed camp." Inside that camp, Correspondent Roberto Suro reports, "Beirut has changed my perceptions of many things. After all the car bombs, parked automobiles will always seem menacing. After all the air raids, the sound of a jet passing overhead will never be the same...
...William Drozdiak. Reported by William Stewart and Roberto Sun/Beirut
...scandal began to unfold in May, when a special audit at the Banco Ambrosiano uncovered $1.4 billion in questionable loans that had been made to paper corporations based in Panama. The companies, it appears, were controlled by Roberto Calvi, the bank's president...
...reaching. Said a P.L.O. official bluntly: "Perhaps the Soviets feel they have not lost much in Lebanon, but I assure you they have lost something all over the world. Every liberation movement now knows that they do not keep their promises." -By John Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Roberto Suro/Beirut