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...WHILE Cardenal's arguments raise serious questions about the viability of the Sandinista regime, counterrevolution is not necessary--yet. Overthrowing the Sandinistas must be seen as a policy of last resort, to be contemplated only after all other means of change have been attempted. For despite the authoritarian nature of the regime, it is a ten-fold improvement over Somoza and Co.: great strides have been made in education and literacy and torture is no longer a fact of life...
...found one: a blunt call for the U.S. to get a lot tougher about Japanese trade. The high rhetoric had all the sounds of an illiberal protectionism, but Mondale plowed ahead anyway. In front of roaring union audiences, he protested with telling exaggeration that American businessmen almost had to resort to U.S. Army tanks to get products into Japan. Mondale was thrilled with his own new boldness. "Did you see the stories?" he proudly asked friends, sometimes mailing them clippings to make certain they read about his aggressive style...
...when 300 ranking Socialists from 70 countries converged on the Portuguese resort of Albufeira last week, the focus was less on their ample advice for world leaders than on the movement's considerable problems. In the past 19 months, five European Socialist parties, including West Germany's, have lost their places in government coalitions. Among those that remain in power, France's is confronted with major economic difficulties and Spain's faces high unemployment. Meanwhile, the Socialist International has become riven by internal squabbles, mostly centering on the contentious role played by its president, former West...
...Louis' other main point is that America is just as willing to resort to nuclear blackmail as the Soviets, and will often lie to the public to achieve its aims. It is true that the U.S. has threatened the use of nuclear missiles before (and has even used two atomic bombs), but such threats have ended two bloody wars and kept the Soviets at bay in Iran (1946) and Cuba...
...integral part of "peace through strength." And it should be sure that the proposed systems meet its defense needs in the most effective and direct manner. Where America relies on the nuclear deterrent to back its conventional troops, it should beef up those troops, not the weapons of last resort never designed to replace them...