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Beer explained that the Argentinian government also has internal political interests in keeping the Falklands. "There is some talk about oil and other material advantages on the Falklands, but the real issue seems to be symbolic." Beer said "General Galtieri probably wants to shore up popular support for his shaky regime...
...sudden turn of events in Guatemala came at a critical moment for Central America. The coup took place just five days before the elections in El Salvador, which the U.S. had hoped would shore up the authority of centrist President José Napoleón Duarte and help him put down the violence of both right-wing extremists and leftist guerrillas. At the same time, the Reagan Administration had been feeling out the possibility of future negotiations involving Nicaragua and Cuba to reduce tensions in the region and end the bloodshed in El Salvador...
While Washington was seeking to shore up the beleaguered forces of moderation in El Salvador last week, the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua declared a 30-day state of emergency in response to what it called U.S. threats of "aggression" and "covert plans" to undermine the government. The decree suspended most basic civil rights, including freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and the right to a judicial hearing before detention. The Sandinista government has put the press under strict censorship and restricted travel abroad for government officials, military personnel and political figures. In addition, a special new patriotic defense contribution will...
Ruisdael was not an on-the-spot painter. His landscapes are "composites," made up in the studio from sketches, memory and imagination; there is no finding the spot where Ruisdael "really" stood on the shore of the IJ. Some places he painted without seeing them at all. The Dutch market, in the late 1650s, had a vogue for Scandinavian waterfalls; Ruisdael obligingly painted about a hundred of them, undeterred by the fact that he had never been north of Holland. His Haarlempjes, or "Views of Haarlem," were also bread and butter; their usual format is one of the best-loved...
With world oil markets already in shambles, ministers from the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are planning to gather this weekend in Vienna to make a desperate gamble. They will try to shore up the price of crude on world markets by agreeing to set a production ceiling of 18.5 million bbl. per day, down from 19.2 million bbl. per day currently, and to parcel out the resulting cuts. That is something that the fiercely nationalistic members of the organization have never before managed to achieve. Many Western analysts, emboldened by strife-torn OPEC's recent setbacks...