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The Sandinistas have admitted supplying the F.M.L.N. with other types of weapons in the past. But U.S. intelligence agencies have not been able to come up with hard information about the nature of these shipments or how they have changed over time. Some Washington officials believe Managua's military aid...
A grisly fantasy of a different sort may soon be conjured up out of the frustration of ultra-rightists in the Salvadoran army and government who are considering a campaign of terror to suppress the insurgents. Between 1980 and 1985, confirmed killings by death squads linked to the military or...
By the time George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Malta, there was no longer any pretense that this was to be a meeting where they simply sat back and talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling...
In fact much of it consisted of offerings that had been put forward elsewhere, but there were also some choicer cuts. The President reiterated his proposal that the two nations wrap up the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva before the next summit -- which he suggested be held in Washington...
On Sunday, in the kind of head-spinning turn of events that is now the norm in the Soviet bloc, East Germany's Egon Krenz resigned as Communist Party leader -- while retaining his post as leader of the state -- and his entire Politburo and Central Committee stepped down as well...