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...violence becomes more widespread, the country is growing increasingly angry at the government of President J.R. Jayawardene, who seems paralyzed by the rebel challenge. Indeed, at week's end Jayawardene, who is ) both the Defense Minister and the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, had not even visited the site of the Anuradhapura massacre...
...weeks as the Mengistu government has mounted a major military offensive against the guerrillas of the Tigre People's Liberation Front. The attack, according to diplomats in Addis Ababa, may be aimed at severing the pipeline that brings in supplies, including some military hardware, from Sudan to the northern rebel-held regions of Ethiopia. But the offensive has also hampered relief convoys that have been secretly ferrying food from Sudan to at least 160,000 starving people. Because many aid trucks are avoiding the most dangerous areas, villagers in the Central Highlands, where the famine is particularly acute...
...giving ground on the issue a month ago. When it was clear he could not get approval for unfettered military aid to the 15,000 contra guerrillas, the President offered to tie his aid package to a new peace proposal. If the Sandinistas would agree to open negotiations with rebel leaders, Reagan said, he would order the funds to be used for nonlethal supplies for at least 60 days. By the time the Senate voted, the President had further agreed to restrict the funds to noncombatants and to involve the U.S. directly in new negotiations. The Senate approved that measure...
...with melodrama dominating. Danny's life much the way respectability comes to define. Andrew's George the made Hungarian, "applies his passion for power and government to his studies which--almost inevitably, it seems--wind up under the auspices of Henry Kissinger 50 People take drugs, marriages crumble children rebel, in these lives must the way they do in non Harvard ones it's just that here they all have class years after their names...
...large population of Cuban and Nicaraguan exiles, has been the scene of the most vigorous anti-Sandinista demonstrations. Contra leaders were honored in Miami last month with parties and a parade during an official Nicaraguan Liberty Week. The star attraction was Fernando Chamorro, head of one of the smaller rebel armies. "We are trying to get a little visibility, to let the American public know us," said Chamorro. "We are here with great optimism and hope that the American government, and more important, the American people, will back us in our fight." Other groups arguing the contra cause include Lehrman...