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Pastora claims that he has not directly received "one penny" from the U.S. But TIME has learned that Israel has been supplying him with arms captured from the Palestine Liberation Organization. The CIA may also be channeling funds and equipment to Pastora through El Salvador, which last month may have served as a base for ARDE air attacks on Nicaragua...
...satisfied with what the contras have accomplished, despite their divisions and discord. Officials credit the rebels' pressure and U.S. military maneuvers in the region for the Sandinistas' new interest in seeking a regional peace settlement. They also say that Nicaraguan assistance for the rebels in El Salvador, which the U.S. has found difficult to prove publicly, has diminished in recent months because the Sandinistas are too busy at home to meddle in their neighbors' affairs. But the gambit is risky. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned last week that if the contras step up their attacks, Sandinista...
...crucial history very pertinent to events today, few people have actually tried to learn about Vietnam by themselves. Vietnam's most important result may be to encourage people to be more informed and aware of the issues at stake right now in places like Afghanistan, Lebanon, Angola and El Salvador...
Congress also turned its attention to El Salvador last week. In a quick, unanimous vote, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a one-year extension of the requirement that U.S. aid to El Salvador be linked to evidence that the Salvadoran government is making progress in improving human rights. As the national bipartisan com- mission on Central America headed by former Secretary of |State Henry Kissinger pre| pared to set off on a six-nation fact-finding tour of the region next week, there was little doubt that the Administration could still use all the advice on Central America that...
...scandal came to the surface in August, when Salvador Barragán Camacho, leader of the powerful Oil Workers' Union of the Mexican Republic, accused fellow Union Executive Héctor García Hernandez (alias El Trampas, the trickster) of stealing some $6.6 million in union funds. The overweight, droopy-eyed García promptly sold most of his Mexican assets, then crossed the border to his $250,000 town house in McAllen, Texas. There, García fired off a letter to President De la Madrid accusing Barragán and the alleged behind-the-scenes "godfather...