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NORTH AMERICANS MAY BE TAKEN BY surprise when Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gor- bachev visits Latin America later this year.

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William M. LeoGrande
For decades, specialists in irregular warfare have pondered the writings of Lenin, Mao, Guevara, and Giap look- ing for a magic formula that would en- able them to halt the advance of guer- rilla insurgencies in the Third World. Periodically, they come up with a new military doctrine advertised as the an- tidote to revolution.
Lesley Gill
The January kidnapping of Ecuado- rean President Le6n Febres Cordero by Air Force commandos plunged Ecuador into political turmoil, expos- ing the growing problems of his con- servative government to international scrutiny and heightening social ten- sions. The millionaire businessman has been at the center of controversy since taking office in August 1984 not only for his pro-business approach, but also because of his aggressive governing style.
IN NOVEMBER 1917, WHEN BOLSHEVIK SOL- diers and workers stormed Petrograd's Winter Palace and overthrew the Provisional Government of Socialist Revolutionary Alexander Kerensky, Latin America was distant and of little importance for Rus- sia.' The tsars and later Kerensky had diplomatic rela- tions with Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Uruguay and Chile, as well as consular ties with Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama and Peru, but these links figured only marginally in Russia's foreign policy.
Latin America and the Comintern 1919-1943 by Manuel Caballero. Cambridge University Press, 1987, 224 pp.
ON NEW YEAR'S DAY 1959 FIDEL CASTRO'S 26th of July Movement guerrillas entered Havana amid an outpouring of public euphoria. Only hours ear- lier Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista had joined his Dominican counterpart Rafael Trujillo in Santo Domingo.
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The caller didn't mince any words. "Expect more of the same, you Communist bitches." The staff at San Francisco's Women's Building are no strangers to harassment.
"IN VIEW OF THE DEATH OF THE CHAIRman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the executive branch has declared national mourning on the day of his burial. Moreover, the national flag will remain at half mast as an expression of mourning at all public buildings, including all Army, Navy and Air Force units.