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"THIS VOTE MUST BE REVERSED," President Reagan fumed immediately after the House of Representatives voted to deny the Adminis- tration its latest request for $100 million in aid for the contras. He pledged his "solemn determination to come back again and again until this battle is won.

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A Welcome and a Good-bye As of May Ist, we are pleased to welcome Martha Doggett as the new editor of NACLA Report on the Americas. Readers already know the high quality of her work.
IT WAS A STEAMY SEPTEMBER NIGHT IN Dallas last year. But the guests in the Regency Hotel's Crystal Room were dining in air-conditioned splendor.
Anna Eisner
The Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City is surrounded by a high cement wall topped with barbed wire and broken glass. Inside, the fac- tory compound houses a bottling plant, loading and parking areas for the delivery trucks, a truck mechanics shop and the administration building.
With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua by Christ- opher Dickey. Simon & Schuster, 1985, 327 pp.
Paul Martin
The track record of the Central America movement in foreseeing the course of U.S.
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Of Bombs and Boys TACA, THE SALVADOREAN AIRLINE, IS UN- usually proud of its new 767. "El Widebody" gets touted in frequent newspaper and TV ads.
"I WAS A MEMBER OF A SPECIAL SQUAD- ron of the Honduran Army. We were trained in Panama, the United States and other places that we didn't know because we entered and left by night," the unnamed man in green fatigues stated as the camera rolled.
WRITING A YEAR AND A HALF AGO IN THE New York Times, former Nixon speechwriter William Safire warned that "openly paying the bills for the overthrow of a government is an act of war, and that requires a declaration of war by Congress," con- cluding the U.S.