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CENTRAL AMERICA IS AN OBJECT LESSON in the gulf between illusion and reality. The crisis in the region is increasingly reduced to a shadow play, with reality reduced to one-dimensional black-and- white.

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Marc Edelman
" 0UR BEST INDUSTRY IS SANDINISTAS," a Costa Rican economic analyst told The Wall Street Journal in September.' Behind the sarcasm was a reality that was only too clear to Costa Ricans.
Chris Norton
VERY FEW AMERICANS, INSIDE OR OUT- side the labor movement, know much about the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD). Individual unions in the United States, inun- dated with domestic problems of their own, have tradi- tionally ceded control of labor's "foreign desk" to the AFL-CIO's International Affairs Department and its four regional institutes, which cover Latin America, Asia, Africa and Western Europe.
The Search for Peace in Central America by the National Labor Com- mittee in Support of Democracy and Human Rights in El Salvador, 1985, 28 pp. $1 (paper).
Black and White and Red All Over MANAGUA-The well-known black pacifist Abbie Hoffman said today that "We must not wait for the United States to invade Nicaragua. In- stead we must invade the United States right now, with the truth.
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF THE PENTAGON probably would not take up much space on the shelves of your local library. But the military may just have a sense of humor.
Martha Doggett
I'm no financial wizard, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez told a journalist at the Havana debt confer- ence in August. "But even I know that the sheet is too short, and if we pull the sheet up over our heads, our feet will stick out.
George Black
I: THE STRATEGY SERGEANT JULIO CORSANTES ONLY JOIN- ed the Guatemalan Army in 1981. For 22 years before that, he was a schoolteacher, and at first glance he still seems an improbable soldier.