Word: salvadore
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...says, to support liberty and political pluralism. Yet democracy in Central America is a patchy business at best. From among the few authentic democrats in the region, the U.S. has staked most of its money and hopes on José Napoleón Duarte, who will assume El Salvador's presidency on Friday. Last week he came to Washington for four days to justify that investment, and succeeded: Duarte won the hearts and minds of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, of President Reagan and severe Reagan critics. "No one could talk to him for half an hour without believing...
...vigorous and vociferous opposition to Marcos' government. When Marcos refused to meet demands to guarantee the legitimacy of the elections, which had been previously scheduled, Aquino's younger brother Agapito ("Butz"), together with former Senators Jose Diokno and Lorenzo Tañada, resolved to boycott the voting. Salvador Laurel and other Marcos opponents disagreed. While conceding that they had little hope against the money and machinery of the well-oiled K.B.L., they believed that by winning even a few seats they could begin to challenge Marcos' system from within. Easier said than done. Though Marcos reluctantly liberalized...
...political." The solutions, it added, "lie in economic and social development and political dialogue, not in more weapons and military advisers." The study, prepared under the direction of Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, encouraged direct negotiations between the government and guerrillas in El Salvador. It also urged the U.S. to stop supporting the contras who are fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government...
Contadora is an effort by the four sponsoring countries to mediate among five Central American nations: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala. Both the U.S. and Cuba were specifically excluded. In July 1983, the presidents of the four Contadora states pledged to seek, among other things, "effective control of the [regional] arms race, the withdrawal of foreign advisers ... and the prohibition of the use of the territory of one state to plan military or political activities that will cause instability in other states." Meeting at the National Bank of Panama building in Panama City last September, the group...
...spring exhibition at London's Tate Gallery, "The Pre-Raphaelites," has been a roaring popular success. In attendance it has been surpassed at the Tate only by exhibitions of John Constable and Salvador Dali-fittingly, since it rivals the intense Englishness of the former while competing with the fulsome, more-than-photographic detail of the latter. The time is long past when hard-core modernists, secure in their belief that nearly everything England produced between the death of Turner and the arrival of Roger Fry was either hopelessly sentimental or irredeemably quaint, assigned the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...