THE Bolivian military regime has broken off diplomatic links with Nicaragua. A case, surely, where congratulations to the Nicarguan government are in order.
Last week Bolivia's foreign ministry accused Nicaragua of 'aggressive conduct'. The complaint was that the government there had been urging the Organisation of American States to take concrete action against the Bolivian dictatorSo far only eight nations have recognised the new Bolivian regime: Taiwan, South Africa, Brazil, Egypt, and Israel. What's the betting Margaret Thatcher makes it into the first 20?
DON'T buy Wrangler jeans! That's the message coming this week from the USA. The reason is that the Blue Bell company which owns the Wrangler label are as reactionary as you can get.
No member of a trade union is permitted to work for Blue Bell, and the company has also decided to opt out of competing for federal government contracts because of its employment policy. This involves a refusal to abide by US government controls on the hiring of racial minorities.
'We want to avoid that because if you cannot meet the stipulation you sometimes have to hire people you do not want to hire,' said a company executive. Like blacks, Puerto Ricans, and trade unionists presumably.
Soviet Union THE Soviet press last week accused two US diplomats of 'improper conduct'.
Mandel - standing up for peace, love, and democracy, and thus the victims of a tyrannical campaign by the Soviet Not exactly. Apparently Judy Mandel, the political affairs officer at the US embassy in Moscow recently told a local family in the Uzbek region of the USSR that Jimmy Carter deserved criticism for 'his indecision and hesitation to use the atomic bomb against Iran'.
THE power that US immigration officials have to refuse entry to gays is threatening the gay refugees from Cuba who have fled to freedom-loving America in the last couple of The repression that gays suffer in Cuba persuaded several thousand of them to join the recent exodus from the But now, according professed' gays are admitted to the country on what is known as a 'deferred inspection', meaning that no final decision has been made as to their eligibility for permanent Refugees are not allowed to leave the camps set up by the US authorities until they have sponsors. groups have launched a major drive to find such sponsors for their Cuban counterparts.
Paraguay, Uruguay, Were the iwo - James and Judy to the US press, 'selfAmerican gay