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Harvard freshman Adrien Ezra, India's national softball champion, shook up Princeton's Alex Cristiani in five-games to put the Crimson ahead for good...
...Soviets deftly reversed roles. With Moscow supporting the F.M.L.N. rebels, Pavlov borrowed the arguments Aronson had advanced for nine months with respect to Nicaragua. Pavlov said he saw "no lack of desire on the part of the F.M.L.N. to negotiate" an end to its war with the Cristiani government. He asked that the U.S. "pressure" Cristiani to "speak seriously" with the guerrillas. Pavlov even adopted Reagan's justification for the contras to explain Cuba's aid to the F.M.L.N. If the F.M.L.N. disarmed before a political settlement was reached, he argued, its ability to press the Salvadoran government to reform...
...Costa Rica. It was there that the Sandinistas, in effect, repudiated the F.M.L.N. The declaration Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega signed at San Isidro called for the Salvadoran guerrillas to "immediately and effectively cease hostilities and join the process of dialogue." The document also expressed Ortega's support of Alfredo Cristiani's Salvadoran government as democratic, something Managua had previously never conceded. "We choked hard on that one," says a former Ortega adviser. "Of course we didn't believe it, but our backs were against the wall. It seemed that the whole world was down on us. Even the Soviets...
...Washington, Congress could debate a boycott of its own this week, when the House is expected to vote on a measure to speed up the Salvadoran peace process. The bill would cut in half this year's $85 million of scheduled military aid to El Salvador if the Cristiani government appears to be stalling in talks to end the war with the country's leftist guerrillas...
...overshadowed by last year's drop in coffee prices. Salvadoran coffee beans that sold for $135 per 100 lbs. last summer fetch just $70, a plunge that has slashed the country's export earnings by at least $175 million, or about 30%. Says Ernesto Altschul, a senior adviser to Cristiani: "I can't imagine they can hurt our coffee industry any worse...