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...stares. When two G.I.s in a pickup truck hit a local student last May, an angry mob pounced on the vehicle and set it ablaze. Most important, after ousting Alvarez in a barracks coup last April, General Walter López Reyes lost no time in publicly repudiating his predecessor's policy as a "distortion in the use of power, which endangers Honduras' peace-loving and democratic policy." Negotiation with the Sandinistas, he implied, was preferable to confrontation, and the economy was more important than the military...
Bangemann's appointment promises to bolster the F.D.P.'s status in the governing coalition. The Free Democrats have slipped badly in public opinion polls, and lost all four of their European Parliament seats in the elections. Unlike his predecessor, however, the new minister knows little about economics and inspires scant confidence among West Germany's business community...
King of the heap is the Harvard Square Theatre (3 Church St.), which does show Casablanca a lot. A couple of years ago it consolidated its one large roach-model of a theater into three smaller units. The one upstairs continues the daily double-feature tradition begun by its predecessor. Each day there is a different double feature--usually put together reasonably well. A few years ago, the groupings were more inventive, but now they seem to have found what pays and have decided to stick with it, serving up a steady diet of Woody Allen, Bogart, and James Bond...
...Salvador seemed caught up in its internal affairs last week, Honduras and Nicaragua appeared preoccupied with foreign relations. In a veiled rebuke to the U.S., General Walter LÓpez Reyes, the commander of Honduras' armed forces, attacked the autocratic policies of his predecessor, General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, who was ousted by the military in March. In a televised speech, LÓpez announced that the 37-member Armed Forces Superior Council was once again the final arbiter of all defense matters. Though Lopez did not criticize the U.S. directly, his talk served notice that Washington could...
Chances that the London summit will resolve these disputes are slim. The previous economic summits have concentrated on building a spirit of cooperation and have rarely achieved specific agreements on complicated financial matters. Looking back on the eight economic summits he attended as West German Chancellor, Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, once reflected that the meetings were valuable not so much for what they accomplished as for what they avoided. He had in mind primarily resistance to curbs on free trade. Still, political harmony and economic discord are not an enduring combination-a point which the London gathering...