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Certainly the odds against a peaceful transition to post-Marcos democracy had tragically lengthened. Deprived of their most visible leader, the President's moderate opponents called for Marcos' resignation and for the formation of a caretaker government prior to national elections. The moderates, however, grouped in an umbrella organization called UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization), stopped short of calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections scheduled for next year...
Along with this new focus, the movement has found a powerful new driving force. Six progressive national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. This umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), founded in 1965 by anti-war activists Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin, the Inter-Faith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee on Africa, and Trans Africa...
...they negotiated fruitlessly all day Saturday, using Monge as an intermediary, with a group of Salvadoran leftists located in the house where the meeting was to take place. The rebels had been assembled by Guillermo Manuel Ungo, the Mexico City-based president of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (F.D.R.), the umbrella political group allied with insurgents who are fighting the government of President Alvaro Maga...
...threat to the U.S. and its interests too. It is time to make decisions that have been delayed for so many years. The consequence of that delay has been the advance of Communism in the region. In Western Europe, nations with strong economies and the NATO military umbrella can negotiate with Communists. But it is very difficult to coexist with Communism in a Latin context. We are a fragile democracy. Can we exist with a Soviet base in the region? We would be facing a superpower, the Soviet Union, through its surrogates, Nicaragua and Cuba. If Nicaragua had a Nicaraguan...
Members of the Campaign Against Public Investment, the national umbrella coalition, say that in the future these local efforts will have far more support from the national groups. In addition, a major focus for their activities is just now coming to the legislative forefront, they point out: a debate on corporate divestiture from businesses operating in South Africa should occur in the House of Representatives sometime next year...