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Despite the heavy casualties, most Iranians appear to embrace both the war and the changes the Ayatullah Khomeini has introduced since he overthrew the Shah in 1979. One small demonstration for a peace settlement took place in downtown Tehran in early April, but the conflict generally remains a popular, unifying force. On street corners people donate money and jewelry to the war effort, while children drop coins in plastic piggy-type banks shaped like hand grenades. Diplomats estimate that the country is spending as much as $5 billion of its $7 billion annual budget on the war against Iraq. Religion...
Rushdie the polemicist, however, tends to dart about these surfaces, fluently gliding over complexities. The dictator the Sandinistas overthrew, he asserts, was a rapist and a castrator; therefore, to call the Sandinistas totalitarian is "obscene." Somehow, the syllogism does not quite scan. Even criticisms of the leadership the visitor takes to be compliments, signs not of dissent but of democracy in action...
Because, say the critics, the contras cannot do the job. They cannot win. How these experts divine the outcome of civil wars is hard to fathom. The contras have more than twice the recruits the Sandinistas had when they overthrew Somoza. Which side is today more popular? It is hard to find out in a dictatorship. But it is worth noting that the Sandinistas have a conscript army, while the contras are a volunteer force...
...task requires a vision of a new Philippines, an ability to organize the process, and a political base different from the coalition that overthrew Marcos. Without such a new base, it will be difficult to take the tough and often unpopular measures that will be required. It is in building this new political base that Aquino has been most uncertain...
...Army on a conservative tack. The U.S. branch was a founder of the USO but resigned from the group in 1976 when it began serving alcohol to soldiers. In 1981 the Army quit the World Council of Churches after it awarded welfare grants to guerrilla organizations that eventually overthrew the white minority regime in Rhodesia. The Army found aid for violent groups inappropriate...