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Washington's diplomatic campaign reached a crescendo early last week with the arrival in San Salvador of Lieut. General Vernon Walters, U.S. ambassador-at-large, and John Carbaugh, an aide to conservative Senator Jesse Helms. Meeting with the leaders of El Salvador's main political parties, Walters and Carbaugh discussed a letter from Secretary of State Alexander Haig that bluntly reiterated three conditions for continued U.S. support: 1) the formation of a government of national unity that would give the Christian Democrats power in proportion to their performance at the polls; 2) continued progress in land, economic...
...particularly intriguing. Washington has long insisted that Havana's efforts to export its revolution, with the help of its Nicaraguan ally, is a prime cause of the four-year-old Salvadoran civil war. In early March, Secretary of State Alexander Haig secretly dispatched his favorite troubleshooter, General Vernon Walters, to Havana to press this point. Castro reportedly told Walters, a former deputy director of the CIA, that while Cuba supports the Salvadoran leftists, it is not currently supplying them with arms. Castro expressed his readiness to address these and other issues in direct negotiations with...
...Vernon Hills...
...countries "may walk to the brink and walk back again," Vernon said, "but we are stuck with each other and we'd better make the best...
Describing a "sea-change in the system of trade relations around the world." Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Management emeritus, said that Japan and the U.S. are each other's best economic allies...