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...opposition figures are invited to dine. Shimon Peres visited 3 two years ago as leader of Israel's Labor opposition. This week he is scheduled to return as his country's Prime Minister. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte has visited, and so has Salvadoran Rebel Spokesman Ruben Zamora...
...announcement appeared to be part of a deliberate media blitz by the Sandinistas, who, according to a confidential internal document leaked to the U.S. embassy in Managua, intend "to introduce our electoral campaign into the U.S. electoral campaign." Whatever the Nicaraguan motives, TIME has learned that the anti-Sandinista rebels known as contrasindeed have plans to launch a series of attacks in Nicaragua within the next two weeks. According to contra spokesmen, the offensive would be the first in which the various rebel groups strike simultaneously, forcing the Sandinistas to spread their defenses more thinly than in the past...
Such sentiments are ironic among the young, who so often in the past have been inclined to rebel against authority figures. As Governor of California during the Viet Nam era, Reagan stirred youthful anger as a critic of campus unrest. Says one longtime aide: "I can remember when he went to college campuses, it would cause a riot." But Viet Nam and most of the other national traumas of the 1960s and early '70s have little resonance for young voters today, who are caught up in a surge of patriotic feeling. "They have not had disillusioning events in their...
There were doubts that Argentina will be able to live up to the terms it agreed to last week. The political situation in the country remains tense, and workers may rebel at the austerity. But the IMF seemed ready to give Alfonsín the benefit of the doubt. If Argentina fails to comply with the austerity program, however, both the IMF and the banks could turn off the money, leaving Argentina worse off than before...
...have helped to broker, the French will remove some 3,000 men, 800 vehicles and 40 aircraft, which have been buttressing the government of President Hissène Habré; the Libyans will pull out their 5,000 men from northern Chad, where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung by the French failure to consult them before...