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...Peru, who has called the Panama invasion a "criminal act," reiterated his threat to boycott the Andean drug summit set for Feb. 15 in Cartagena, Colombia, unless U.S. troops are withdrawn from Panama. Others scheduled to attend are Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco Vargas and Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora...
President Alan Garcia of Peru met Presidents Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia at an air force base near Pisco, 45 miles northwest of Ica. They flew by helicopter to the Las Dunas hotel outside this city of 350,000 in the coastal desert 185 miles southeast of Lima...
...announcement was certainly a quick way for the President to steal the spotlight from the expatriate rebel leaders who returned to El Salvador. Three days before Duarte's announcement, Ruben Zamora Rivas, vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, returned from exile in Nicaragua to be greeted by a small but fervent group of supporters. Mocking Duarte's embrace of the American flag during his last trip to Washington, Zamora kissed the flag of El Salvador when he arrived. "This is all the amnesty I will need," he declared...
...returning exile, Guillermo Manuel Ungo of the National Revolutionary Movement: "I don't think most people realize the change that the F.M.L.N. has undergone. It has learned that this war is going to be won through political, not military, processes." The right, as expected, began brandishing its swords at Zamora and Ungo. An anonymous threat appeared in El Diario: "Do not lament when people, acting out of desperation, take justice into their own hands, and we find ourselves in the middle of a civil war for which you and Duarte's Christian Democrats will be to blame...
...withdrawing from cases instead of promoting falsity, perjury and fraud," he says, "the sooner faith in the criminal-justice system will begin to be restored." Rubin, 61, has never shied from controversy. In 1977 he made headlines when he unsuccessfully sought to have a jury acquit Teenage Killer Ronald Zamora on the ground that "subliminal TV intoxication" had diminished his client's sense of right and wrong. He has defended Watergate burglars, championed Cuban refugee causes and in 1978 even staved off a disbarment move for allegedly neglecting several clients' cases. Now his license to practice may be at risk...