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...campaign stump to Congress. Mondale preaches compassion, Hart calls for "new ideas." Old liberals like Tip O'Neill support massive jobs bills, while young reformers vote to freeze spending on all domestic programs. Southern Democrats seek to contain Communism in Central America, while Northern Democrats look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam. No center holds. "The party is floundering because it lacks a vision of where it is going," says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber. "Where there is no vision, the parties perish...
...troops, Honduras has provided a home for thousands of contras, whose hit-and-run operations along its borders have served only to inflame the threat of Nicaraguan retaliation. At the U.S.-run training camp in Trujillo, meanwhile, the Americans have been graduating twice as many soldiers from neighboring El Salvador as they have Hondurans, in an effort to bolster that country's fight against the rebels. That rankles many Honduran officials, who recall the 1969 war between the two countries and still believe, as an opposition leader puts it, that "once El Salvador settles its internal problem, it will...
Costa Rica's dilemma is partly of its own making. Its pacific tradition has long made it a haven for exiles of all political stripes: it now houses some 16,000 refugees from El Salvador, 10,000 of them un registered. It is home to 3,500 exiles from the Sandinista regime, though just five years ago it allowed free rein to Sandinista rebels fighting to bring down Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...
...many Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, fiery leader of El Salvador's fiercest right-wing faction, represents the dangerous pitfalls of U.S. support for that troubled country. Somewhat similarly, Edén Pastora Gómez, the maverick "Commander Zero" of the Nicaraguan revolution who later took up arms against his victorious comrades, has come to illustrate the troubles of Washington's covert effort to put pressure on the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Both of these flamboyant figures happened to be in Washington last week just after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut aid to anti-Sandinista contra...
...funds are unlikely to match American largesse. The Administration says it will resubmit an aid request later this year. A 35-page background paper was circulated around Capitol Hill last week, giving a few new pieces of intelligence about Nicaragua's support of the leftist rebels in El Salvador. More important, advocates of the contra effort point out that withdrawal of aid robs the Administration of a significant bargaining chip and leaves in the lurch those fighters who had come to rely on the U.S. But even Reagan's staunchest supporters now concede that the covert program could...