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...Washington's two-track approach-promoting negotiations in each country while giving military support to the government in El Salvador and the guerrillas in Nicaragua-has met with little success. In the past fortnight, two events took place in Costa Rica, a neutral neighbor, that illustrate both the hope and the frustration of finding a peaceful solution to the region's two civil wars. The first event: four noted Nicaraguan dissidents, who are opponents of the Sandinistas but are not associated with U.S.-backed guerrillas, offered to act as intermediaries between the Nicaraguan government and the insurgents...
...spread of violence. Part of his hope in planning last week's meeting, which would have been the first direct high-level contact between the Reagan Administration and the Salvadoran guerrillas, was that it could lead to a negotiated settlement in Nicaragua as well as El Salvador...
...this reason, Stone's stopover in San Salvador was a crucial prelude to the talks he hoped to have in Costa Rica. Apparently he convinced Magaña and other Salvadoran leaders that the U.S. would not be sacrificing their cause and that the planned meeting in San José could be valuable. Neither Magaña nor any other prominent officeholder objected publicly to the meeting, and even Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the far-right Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA) declared, "If [Stone] thinks it convenient to talk to the guerrillas and give us his recommendations...
...largely by 7,000 lightly armed civil and rural guardsmen. The country's 1982 per capita income of $1,164 is the second highest, after Panama, in Central America, and its society is largely lacking in the unhealthy extremes of wealth and poverty that afflict Guatemala and El Salvador...
...cord of contracts with the Pentagon; approximately half of the institute's $3.6 million annual budget comes from Government contracts. But he also branched out to ponder other societal problems. Among the studies being pursued: prospects for electronic transmission of mail, ways to win a war in El Salvador, alternatives to the federal income tax, the strength of the Soviet navy. On a typical day, Kahn moved from seminars to informal discussions spouting such iconoclastic judgments as "The nuclear freeze is immoral" and "The welfare economy is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Such orotund pronouncements often infuriated critics...