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...Salvadoran born into the middle class. The guerrillas have blocked all possibilities for development. The economy is in a kind of chaos we have never experienced before. We love our country. We are not defending the interests of any particular sector...
Barry M Locke was born in 1932. He rose swiftly in Massachusetts politics, becoming press secretary to Gov. John Volpe before turning 35. After Volpe left the statehouse. Locke bounced around the private sector until 1979, when he became Secretary of Transportation and Construction of the Commonwealth, and then chairman of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Sometime shortly thereafter, he became disenchanted with public trust, or desperately hungry for money, or both. He and "close friends" began engineering one of the most incredible corruption schemes in the history of a state with a record of corruption topped...
...still work to modify that government's behavior. The Administration should immediately soften its tone, thereby giving the Sandinistas fewer pretexts to justify their militancy and repression. In addition, the U.S. should work with Western nations to aid the non-Sandinista parties and the private sector. The Sandinistas' biggest worry is that they will be shunned by the Socialist International, an association of democratic socialist parties; that could mean West Germany would stop its aid program and Venezuela its system of selling the government oil at preferential rates...
...Communists) and forcefully moving against one of the country's minority groups, the Miskito Indians, whose loyalty to the new regime is suspect. Still, Nicaragua is not yet a totalitarian society. Outside the government, a limited pluralism is provided by such elements as the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement; the private sector, which accounts for over 60% of the country's G.N.P.; the Catholic bishops; and the independent daily La Prensa...
...electorate turned out to vote. But there is a major threat to the country's stability: its failing economy. Decades of high spending on social programs, plus spiraling oil bills, left Costa Rica with a $130 million trade deficit last year and a $2.9 billion public-sector debt. Inflation is running more than 100%. Incoming President Monge has pledged to follow a strict austerity program, which is likely to include cuts in public spending, but this move will be accompanied by substantial political risks...