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Whatever its wider aims, the offensive failed to squelch the guerrillas, who number anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000. Bolstered by their religious zeal-and, more practically, by a flow of arms and supplies from abroad-they are grimly determined to rid their homeland of the hated invader. "The Islamic faith is the force behind our jihad [holy war]," says Rebel Unit Commander Mohammed Anwar. "If we thought this was an ordinary battle, we could not fight the Soviets...
...Sandinistas to strike a bargain with the U.S. to call off the contras. The problem is that Nicaragua has long been willing to discuss such a deal-but unwilling to do anything about its side of the putative bargain. For more than two years, the Sandinistas have offered to squelch any support from their territory for the Salvadoran guerrillas if the U.S. would only provide hard information about the location of the aid-an offer repeated in Ortega's interview with TIME. For nearly a year, the U.S. has pointed to the existence of a Salvadoran guerrilla command center...
...West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Mitterrand lashed out at American economic policy and complained that "it is not normal for the U.S. budget deficit to be paid by us in Europe." His meaning: U.S. shortfalls are the prime cause for continuing high international interest rates; these, in turn, could squelch the hesitant economic recovery in Western Europe. As a side effect, the level of interest rates has powerfully augmented the value of the U.S. dollar against other major Western currencies. Mitterrand therefore called for a "new Bretton Woods" conference among the allies, meaning an attempt to return to the kind...
After last week's outburst, both nations were eyeing each other more warily. Iranian authorities nervously tried to squelch rumors that the Soviet embassy in Tehran would be seized, as its U.S. counterpart had been in November 1979. The Soviet party newspaper Pravda vigorously asserted that the Soviet people "resolutely reject" the charges against the Tudeh. The article went on to argue, speciously, that the Tudeh was unlikely to know any important secrets and, disingenuously, that the U.S. had instigated the sudden crackdown...
...planning to ask that U.S. courts order the seizure of Chinese assets. U.S. officials have tried to explain to Peking that the principle of separation of powers prevents the Administration from intervening and killing the claim. The Chinese, incredulous at the notion that Washington cannot simply squelch the judgment, have refused U.S. entreaties to contest the ruling in an American federal appeals court...