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"IT IS CLEAR," OPINED THE TOWER COM- 1mission, "that Israel had its own interests, some in direct conflict with those of the United States, in having the United States pursue the initiative. For this reason, it had an incentive to keep the initiative alive.

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Milton Jamail & Margo Gutierrez
ISRAEL'S MILITARY ROLE IN CENTRAL America is a topic that often provokes heated con- troversy. Before the Iran-Israel-contra scandal began to unfold in November, there was little discussion of the Israeli dimension of the Central American conflict.
Holly Sklar
Counterrevolution has been born again as "low-intensity conflict" (LIC), and anti-interventionists are not immune to its mystique. The fad- dish use of "low-intensity" to des- cribe war in Central America is as wrong as using "peacekeeper" for missiles or "freedom fighters" for contras.
Helen Shapiro & Gesner Oliveira Filho
On February 20, in an attempt to shore up Brazil's dwindling foreign exchange reserves and his own politi- cal capital, President Jos6 Sarney de- clared a moratorium on foreign debt payments. His announcement on Brazilian television marked the formal death notice for the year-old Cruzado Plan.
Mark Fried
"If the co-ops help the guerrillas," the thin, tired woman told me, "then the guerrillas must be our little babies." She pointed to her five chil- dren playing in the thick dust of El Salvador's dry season.
Milton Jamail & Margo Gutierrez
"THE GABRIEL WEAPON SYSTEM, AS "Iother IAI products, has proven itself highly re- liable and effective in naval engagements. This was proved when, for the first time in history, sea-to-sea missiles were used by opposing navies.
Milton Jamail & Margo Gutierrez
A PRODUCER FOR CBS'S SIXTY MINUTES, who had set up camp last January at Guatemala City's Camino Real Hotel, was sharing his views around the pool. Israeli involvement in Guatemala is "old news," he said, the cutting edge of the Central America story was Honduran aid for the contras.
Israel and Latin America: The Mili- tary Connection by Bishara Bahbah. St.
Jane Hunter
"YOU FEEL AFTER A DAY LIKE YOU'VE 1.known them for years.
Schwepps, or Perrier? "When you are in the desert and you're dying of thirst . .
Washington's New Freedom Fighters? W ITH ONE "PRIVATE" AID NETWORK LAID bare, advocates of the Surinamese Liberation Army (SLA) are pushing Washington to support "one of the oldest freedom fighters in the hemisphere." The SLA is based among the Maroons or "Bush Negroes" of eastern Suriname, descendants of slaves who fled Dutch plantations in the 1700s.