the industrialized worlds; glance at the severe tensions within the Soviet bloc; and conclude, with true courage, with true self-interest, that nobody’s welfare can be furthered by inventing a fictitious fulcrum of East- West confrontation in a small country where, even if it should “go communist,’’ the Soviet Union would be unable to maintain it within its orbit without paying an exhorbitant material price. I suspect, however, that the Soviet Union does not want El Salvador in its orbit. The Soviet Union prefers to wink at the United States and say: “We have understood you. You can do whatever you like in your sphere of influence. We can do whatever we like in ours. We strangle Afghanistan. You strangle El Salvador. We strangle Poland. You strangle Nicaragua. And if it comes to the crunch and you want to strike at sources not outside the target area, here goes Cuba and here comes West Berlin. Okay?" No, it is not okay; the balance has changed because Mexico and Venezuela have emerged as important economic and political powers in the Americas. They have a role to play in Central America and the Caribbean. They are playing that role, and their message is, Hands off El Salvador, everyone. Negotiate. Do not internationalize an internal conflict. Do not invent an East- West confrontation in a land that only requires North-South cooperation. The United States has a role to play, too, but only if it is in concert with the other nations of the area. What no one will tolerate is a proconsular attitude from Washington. What we expect of the United States is loyal participation in our 22 Clinton St. Quarterly FEMINIST POSTCARDS by FeMail Art Productions, P.O. Box 10706, Portland, OR 97210 Available at: Catbird Seat; Sensorium; A Woman's Place Bookstore; Looking Class Bookstore; Finnegan's; National Organization For Women (NOW); Oregon Chapter, National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). own Latin American policy of shifting power from the army to the people; of ending the long rule of the army; of cooperating with Mexico and Venezuela and Costa Rica and West Germany and the Soviet Union and East Germany and Sweden and Japan and Canada and France in offering the people of El Salvador and Nicaragua the plural sources of aid they need to reconstruct their shattered economies. What we expect of the United States is a shift in its attention away from the sterility of East-West confrontation and toward the fertility of global economic negotiations. What we expect from the United States is as little and as much as Roosevelt gave Cardenas: American faith and trust in itself as a democratic polity, and an understanding that by respecting self-determination in Latin America, by understanding change, upheaval, and even violence in Latin America instead of stopping change, adding to violence, and creating its own counterrevolutionary havoc, by accepting the universal right to revolution even when it hurts U.S. private interests, the United States is most loyal to itself as a community founded on revolution, and most consonant with its self-interest when it does not permit marginal and private interests to set themselves above the meaning, the attraction, the truth of this great nation. • • Farewell Monroe Doctrine by Carlos Fuentes. First published, Harper’s Magazine. Copyright © 1981 by Carlos Fuentes. Reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt Literary Agents, Inc. DeNicolas' Restaurants Mrs. DeNicola and her family invite you to the DeNicolas' Restaurants. The DeNicolas prepare each entree with fine ingredients. . . from recipes they brought with them from Italy. They serve the kind of Italian food you've been looking for. DENICOLAS' 234-2600 3520 SE POWELL DENICOLAS' WEST 638-8428 18791 SW MARTINAZZI TUALATIN Nation s #7 CAWLEY LEMAY W le y Dealt LANGE * MORS0 • ULEFOS • COMFORTER UPLAND * WOODSTOCK SOAPSTONE • Hand Forged Fireplace Tools • Stratojets ■and Many More Accessories • WES0 CERAMIC TILE • MERIDIAN CERAMIC TILE y * CASTELMONTE * RAIS WE HAVE OREGON’S LARGEST DISPLAY OF FINE QUALITY EFFICIENT CAST . IRON WOODSTOVES. . • Check Our Prices Before You Buy • Call The Experts for Friendly Advice and Information • Including a Complete Selection of • Metalbestos Chimney Systems. Stove Pipe and Adaptors • Chimgard* Stack Thermometers. ■Chimney Cleaning Supplies • Hunter Ceiling Fans“ 503-236-5444 Liberty Fires I Woodstoves* 1400 S.E. Stark Portland
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