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...into Friday morning, heavy, wet snow, sometimes mixed with sleet and accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell from Virginia to Maine. Up to two feet of snow piled up in central New York State. Snowplows clearing runways at Boston's Logan Airport occasionally ground to a halt when their drivers were bunded in whiteouts of whirling flakes...
...advocate of the Atlantic Alliance, the French President strongly supported the deployment of new U.S. missiles on European soil. He contributed 2,000 men to the Multi-National Force in Beirut (the last to depart, the French plan to withdraw this week) and dispatched some 3,000 troops to halt a Libyan-backed rebellion in Chad. The only major disagreement is on U.S. policy in Central America, which Mitterrand implicitly criticized during his speech to Congress. "Civil wars are not triggered by external influence alone, even if they may serve foreign interests," he said, alluding to Reagan's contention...
...while the possible outcomes offer two sharp alternatives, the choice of leaders before the Salvadorans is by no means clear. After four years of internecine conflict and 50,000 deaths, the people of El Salvador desperately desire order and a halt to the bloodletting. Voters may be tempted then to choose the toughest-talking candidate, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the reactionary leader of the National Republican Alliance and a man linked at least indirectly to the right wing death squads...
Potter said that he began organizing the trip a year and a halt ago by mailing letters to concert organizers in Europe informing them that the group would be in Europe over the summer. The group then received a number of invitations to play, he said...
Internationally, McGovern is a strong of Reagan-style adventurism. He is currently the strongest "peace candidate" in the race, advocating not only a nuclear freeze, but also that the U.S. take immediate unilateral steps to halt the arms race. He urges a complete Marine withdrawal from Lebanon--a move he called for well in advance of most other candidates and before the bombing of the Marine compound--and the complete termination of all U.S. military operations in Central America. What makes these foreign policy positions all the more credible is that they are wholly consistent with McGovern's past positions...