Locked in Battle
ON OCTOBER 15, 1979 A GROUP OF YOUNG officers carried out a bloodless coup against the government of General Oscar ...
COSTA RICA Modernizing the Non-Army
Only a few years ago, Costa Rican policemen carried screwdrivers, not guns, in their holsters. Much of their time was ...
Taking Note
POOR GEORGE ORWELL. WITH THE YEAR just two months old, every camp from neocon- servative to Marxist has been trying ...
The Silenced Majority
THE FORCES ARRAYED AGAINST EACH other in the civil war are sharply defined; the op- posing blocs illustrate clearly that ...
The Military Balance
THE RELATIVE LULL IN MILITARY ACTIVITY after the March 1982 elections, a result of the poli- tical setback suffered by ...
EL SALVADOR 1984
THERE IS NO END IN SIGHT TO THE war that has ravaged El Salvador for the last four years. 45,000 ...
BRAZILIAN DEBT Eleventh Hour Ball-Out
"We were 76 traveling companions and only one did not renegotiate; that was us," declared Brazil's Planning Minister Ant6nio Delfim ...
