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Meeting Gary Lewis Cracked Sharkey’s Night Ad Index Bill London David Romtvedt Steven Bryan Bieler Carol Van Strum Arpilleristas of Chile Francis at St. Augustine Nancy Hoffman Even Hoedads Get the Blues Cover Anton Kimball Letter to Bud Clark Lenny Dee Ecotopia or Appalachia Lynn Darroch Can Portland’s Mayor Make a Co-Editors Lenny Dee Peggy Lindquist David MiIhoiland Jim Blashfield Design and Production Jim Blashfield Production Assistant David Milholland Camerawork Tim Braun Ad Production Peggy Lindquist Beverly Wong Stacey Fletcher Ad Sales — Portland/Eugene Lenny Dee, Sandy Wallsmith, Anne Hughes, Laurie McClain, Tim Jordan, Ellen Adler Ad Sales — Seattle Linda Ballantine, Lars Hanson Proofreaders Anne Hughes, David Milholland Contributing Artists Arpilleristas, Tim Braun, T. Michael Gardiner, J.C. 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EDITORIAL In our global village sometimes a picture lor image that makes the moment stand still makes the history that follows a natural development. The ebb and flow of the Vietnam War resolved itself on the six o'clock news during the Tet Offensive when a Viet Cong warrior was executed in living color by the Saigon police chief. Such an image is still to reach us from the ever-escalating conflict in Central America. Recently published photos of a 1927 incident showing an American Marine holding up a Sandinista head make one ponder the effect if such a latter-day scene were to flash across America's living rooms. We’ve much to learn from that distant conflict. In our now society, with yesterday's papers already yellowing, a short course in Latin American history is in order. How many of us have any idea that from 1927-1933, some 18,000 U.S. troopS fought an early version of counterinsurgency against the original Sandinistas. U.S. forces bombed hillsides and villages while running covert operations from nearby Honduras. The Sandinistas won the battle of wills, only to find treachery in peace, and Nicaragua had imposed upon it a brutal 45-year reign of terror sustained with U.S. arms and aid. The current U.S. administration has brought out the bogeyman of a Soviet- sponsored red menace soon to be on the banks of the Rio Grande unless we respond militarily. Once again, history teaches us some valuable lessons. From 1928-33, the Soviet Union backed unsuccessful indigenous uprisings in Brazil, Chile, El Salvador and Mexico. Since that time they have been exceedingly cautious in dealing with Latin America. Far more so than we have. Since WWII, the U.S. has invaded the Dominican Republic and Grenada, occupied large portions of Panama and Honduras, abetted the overthrow of countless elected governments (notably Guatemala, 1954; Brazil, 1964; and Chile, 1973), and maintained as many caudillos and right-wing regimes as deemed possible, all in the name of democracy. In Cuba, the one that slipped away, the Soviet's influence has proven to be a controlling factor rather than a stimulating influence. In the '70s, the Soviets refused to provide free military equipment or absorb huge trade deficits for Allende’s Chile. The ’80s have brought an unwillingness to open wide the purse strings for a hard-pressed Nicaraguan government. Unlike their bogged-down war in Afghanistan, the Soviets in Latin America have used a martial arts approach: turning the weight of a more powerful opponent against him. We seem to fall for the trap again and again, lining up with genocidal right-wing governments, causing potentially deep divisions on the home front and the spectre of Vietnam-like conflict. Washington’s paternalism won't let it believe that Latins will withstand the blandishments of the Soviets. Yet the Peruvians have not genuflected towards Moscow in spite of arms sales, the farmers of the pampas have not made Argentina a Soviet agrioultural satellite even though providing massive grain shipments, and the Mexicans remain fiercely independent despite friendly relations with the USSR. With no sense of history, the U.S. is bound to repeat the mistakes of the past on a populace that still hasn’t forgiven us for either our interventions or our forgetting that they ever happened. LD WHY SUBSCRIBE TO A FREE CSQ ? 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