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...Washington's experience in El Salvador several years ago. By backing away from a lawless right wing in El Salvador and embracing Centrist Jose Napoleon Duarte, wrote Oklahoma's McCurdy in a Washington Post op-ed article, the U.S. ended up "on the side of democracy and helped weaken both extremes, setting El Salvador on the road to a political settlement." Crossing the centrist "threshold" in Nicaragua, says Fortier, "could create a dynamic of its own, just as in El Salvador...
...legislative obstacles were only the start of Reagan's Central American headaches last week. In Honduras, army efforts to move the contras out of camps near the Nicaraguan border threatened to impede the rebels' efforts to weaken Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Nicaragua, Sandinista officials irritated Washington both by seeking to set up their own talks with Honduras and by announcing an oil deal with the Soviet Union. In Costa Rica, the Reagan Administration came under increasing criticism for sending Green Berets to a base...
...White House for a last- minute patriotic pitch from the Gipper. Chief Arms Control Negotiator Max Kampelman made a special guest appearance, jetting home from the Geneva arms talks to add diplomatic luster to Reagan's argument that a vote in the House against the MX would weaken America's bargaining position with the Soviets. Backstage, top Cabinet officials gave briefings to press Reagan's case to release $1.5 billion for a second batch of 21 missiles...
...stressed the need for arms negotiations and has called for improved U.S.-Soviet relations in terms similar to those used by Gromyko in recent months. Surmises Jerry Hough, a Soviet specialist at Duke University: "Gorbachev is linking himself to the foreign policy of Gromyko." That dependence could weaken as Gorbachev gains greater experience in world affairs, but for the moment Gromyko is viewed not only as the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but also as its chief architect. One result, says Soviet Expert Dimitri Simes from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Gromyko...
...House, constantly stressing that the U.S. would lose vital leverage in Geneva without the MX, which is scheduled to come up for a series of funding votes in the next few weeks. Using his favorite name for the missile, the President pleaded with one group: "Let us not unilaterally weaken our position as we begin the talks. The worst signal we could send the Soviets would be to halt the production of the MX Peacekeeper program." Amplifying on that theme in his regular Saturday radio message, Reagan said such a signal would tell the Soviets that "they can gain more...