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Like Argentina, Venezuela has fallen behind in paying interest on its $34 billion debt. The country has refused to accept an IMF austerity program to get new loans, and the Venezuelans are relying on oil revenues to pay for vital imports. Jaime Lusinchi, who became Venezuela's President in February, vowed that his government "will pay back every cent it owes," but said that he would not submit to repayment terms that "impede the progress of the country...
...initiative to create something like our system is underway in other universities, but Harvard also wants to shore up its Houses--they're vital to the life of the College," Dingman says...
...problem with Hart's approach is that it misinterprets the past and provides no program for the future El Salvador is not Vietnam, and to withdraw our troops precipitously, or even at all, would make a mockery of American policy and power in a region that is of vital importance...
...stake in El Salvador is not just moral: it is also strategic. Vietnam may have been on the other side of the world: Central America is in our backyard. A communist El Salvador would threaten vital American increase the pressure on democratic Honduras and Costa Rica. The growing strength of revolutionary ideology on the isthmus would make the Panama Canal even more vulnerable to attack by terrorists or governments. And a Marxist-dominated Central America would have much adverse effect on Mexico, which faces increasing demographic and political pressures in the years to come...
...times." But Gary Hart apparently wants to do just that. By unilaterally withdrawing American military might from Central America, he would foresake the chance for democratic change and endanger our own backyard. Hart's battle is long over: it does not belong in an area so close and so vital...