Four More Years: A Symposium on Central America and the Second Reagan Term
UnpublishedJanuary/February
1985
Volume:
19
Number:
1
Report
ROBERT L. BOROSAGE is director of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), and was one of the drafters of PACCA's Changing Course: A Blueprint for Peace in Central America and the Caribbean.
Article
Jack Spence
"Election Plan in Nicaragua is Cri- ticized by Opposition" The New York Times January 18, 1984 "Going Through the Motions in Nica- ragua" The New York Times November 4, 1984 These Times headlines, opening and closing the pre-election period, capture the essence of the news frames for the November 4 Nicara- guan elections. Would the "key" op- position group regard the elections as sufficiently fair, or call a boycott? When it did finally boycott, the elec- tion became for the media a ho-hum affair with the Sandinistas dominating "smaller" parties and voters "going through the motions" of showing up to vote.
Guise of Objectivity Multi-party diversity in a revolu- tionary socialist country has little his- torical success, and Nicaragua's ex- perience could enrich our understand- ing of paths for radical social change. The brief article by Tony Jenkins (September/October 1984) provides some useful information but is filled with factual errors and analysis more suited to The New Republic.
BLACK-How does the Reagan Administration feel about its performance in El Salvador? And what does it have in mind for its second term beyond a military victory over the guerrillas? SEN. DICK CLARK-It's my impression, above all in foreign policy, that nobody in the administra- tion has a clear fix on where they are headed.
Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan by Ana Carrigan. Simon and Schuster, 317 pp.
BLACK-Mandate is a hard thing to define, but we might start by assessing what the administration will claim as its mandate for a second term. And in the wake of the Reagan landslide, what real domestic restraints will the incoming administration face? FEINBERG-I would say the administration clearly does not have a mandate for a hard line.
ARMSTRONG-Our central question in this ses- sion is whether the Sandinistas can survive. To a large extent, that means will the administration let them survive.
Walter Tauber
Policemen patrolled the flower beds, soldiers in full battle dress guarded palm trees and fountains. General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was arriving at the Casino of Vifia del Mar.
Four Down, Four to Go FOUR YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, THE FMLN launched an offensive in El Salvador de- signed to present incoming U.S.
ROBERT ARMSTRONG-Are the Reagan Admin- istration's actions in Central America a model for the rest of the Third World? Or are they a sui generis reaction to the problems of the Caribbean Basin? JORGE SOL-Let's look first at what the adminis- tration has done in its first four years. There has been a tremendous increase in the U.