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FOR THE LAYPERSON, MILITARY POLICY IS still one of the most arcane of sciences. In trying to decipher the policy of a particular Administration, it is usually risky to look at any single event-whether a major speech, a diplomatic showdown or an armed in- vasion-and draw sweeping conclusions about the ex- tent to which it embodies a particular doctrine or repre- sents a departure from tradition.

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Mariano Aguirre
MADRID-In the fall of 1983, Spain's social democratic government refused to co-sponsor a demonstration in support of the Sandinistas. The government charged that the event was less pro-Nicaraguan than anti- American; by endorsing it, the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) would appear to be criticizing an important ally.
Richard Lapper
On the wall of the shabby adminis- trative building at the entrance to Managua's Mercado Oriental, or "Eastern Market," government offi- cials have pinned a small cardboard sign addressed to the thousands of market traders. "Don't think," it reads, "that just because we have been flexible and moderate in the past that we can't be tough.
If we ever reach the point of shooting it out with con- ventional Red Army formations, we already will have lost. What we are talking about here is the real war.
South America, Central America and the Caribbean 1986, Europa Publications Limited Reference Book, 1985, 582 pp. $90 (cloth).
Amphibious Refugees You lose Nicaragua and you will have boat people coming up the Pan- American highway in the thousands to the United States. Patrick Buchanan White House Communications Director ABC-TV March 17, 1986 A Little Gender Trouble Sister Calls Castro a Traitor WASHINGTON, July 25-Juanita Castro, brother of President Fidel Castro of Cuba, denounced him as a traitor today for breaking his promise to restore democracy to their home- land.
Martin F. Murphy
Only two months before national presidential elections in the Domini- can Republic, slated for May 16, no clear front-runner has emerged, with opinion polls remaining far from con- clusive. The four leading contenders cover much of the political spectrum; two of them claim to represent the same party.
We are at war today in the Caribbean Basin. It is not a war in the conventional sense.
AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCHS? THE U.S.
To me, our most pressing problem is not in the Third World, but here at home in the struggle for the minds of people. .
Joan Dassin
In December 1985 Argentina's courts handed down sentences in the "dirty war" trials. While four out of nine former junta members were ac- quitted-at least this time around-- former president Gen.