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If, as artists, we can silently witness the destruction of other cultures, we forfeit the right to make art of our own. ARTISTS CALL general statement, January 1984 On January 28, almost a thousand people wearing black walked single file from the aircraft carrier Intrepid on the Hudson River (our museum of war) to the Judson Memorial Church on New York's Washington Square (our mu- seum of peace, housing three exhibi- tions of art for, from and about Central America).
Belizean politics have been dominated by one man and one issue for over 20 years. The man is Prime Minister George C.
Tired, But Optimistic I'm stuck in a factory paying the dues of having "dropped out" ten plus years ago without a parachute. Your magazine is a constant reminder of the man I want to become because of its humanity, sensitivity and commitment to better things and ways.
Lindie Bosniak & Jane Rasmussen
Editorial note: Since this article was written, Stacy Merkt was convicted on all three felony counts. Sentencing is scheduled for June 27th.
Witness to War: An American Doc- tor in El Salvador by Charles Clements, M.D.
Joy Hackel & John Cavanagh
L'Eggs, Florsheim, Le Sportsac and Maidenform-all familiar brand names which stream into the U.S.
LATE THIS MARCH, A SENIOR U.S.
Virgin Appears in Sky; Woman Gives Birth to Chicken "THE OLD IS DYING, AND THE NEW CAN- not be born," Antonio Gramsci once reflected in his Prison Notebooks. "In this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
"NOW, AFTER A DECADE OF NEAR ISOLA- tionism when even the hint of military action brought denunciations of 'planning for another Vietnam" we can realistically think about the use of force again."' The words of Pentagon systems analyst Mark Cancian marked a return to familiar tradition, that for years had helped define the mainstream of U.
IF THE UMBILICAL THEORY IS DEAD, THE implications are profound. In coming round to a more accu- rate understanding of why Cuba and Nicaragua are impor- tant to the FMLN and other prospective revolutionaries, the Administration may grasp that they matter not because they run guns-which, after all, is behavior that can be "cured" by arm-twisting and offshore blockades-but because of their very existence as revolutionary left-wing states.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT COM- mitted to Central America; I don't think they care;' mused the U.S.