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...Kissinger commission is charged with recommending a long-term U.S. policy on Central America capable of winning widespread national support. No easy matter: even before the panel was sworn in last week, Democrat Henry Cisneros, the mayor of San Antonio and one of two Hispanic commission members, publicly criticized the Administration's Central American policy as "wrong and potentially dangerous." Meanwhile, conservative groups and some Cuban exiles pressured the White House to oust Reagan's other Hispanic appointee, Cuban-born Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, a Yale University economics professor, because of his alleged sympathies with Cuban Leader Fidel...
...leaders across the U.S. All Democrats, the club includes New Mexico Governor Toney Anaya and Mayors Maurice Ferré of Miami, Henry Cisneros of San Antonio and Louis Montaño of Santa Fe. When Peña, a political unknown and son of a Texas cotton trader, is sworn in this week, it will end the 14-year reign of William McNichols Jr., 73. Tainted by ineptitude and scandals involving his appointees, Mayor Bill, as he was known, finished a poor third in a field of seven in a May bipartisan election...
Miraculous testimonies abounded on Richard Roberts' swing through Wisconsin. It was impossible to discern which people might have been cured and which were subject only to passing psychological relief. Some could even have sworn to have been made well, hoping that a taped segment of the event would make Oral's television show. Like all Christian faith healers, Richard attributes any cures to God's power, not his own, and says of his role: "If they say they are healed, no matter what you or anybody else thinks, you sure can't deny...
...distinguished career diplomat who is currently U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria. Pickering thus becomes the third member of a new diplomatic troika. The other two previously appointed members are L. Anthony Motley, 45, who was Ambassador to Brazil, and Richard Stone, a former Democratic Senator from Florida, who was sworn in last week as the State Department's special envoy to Central America. Said Shultz: "[Pickering] is the best possible man for the job. We picked out of the very heavy cream the best that the Foreign Service has to offer...
Much of the anxious talk in Tegucigalpa centers on one man: General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, 45, the fervently anti-Communist commander in chief of the Honduran armed forces. When Roberto Suazo Córdova was sworn in last year as Honduras' first civilian President in a decade, Alvarez vowed that the army would be at the service of the state. But growing U.S. military involvement in Honduras may have weighted the delicate power balance in favor of Alvarez. Critics argue that Alvarez, who was scheduled to visit Washington this week, now plays such an important role...