Mexico defers loan use as trade surplus grows
Mexico postpones drawing more than 1.4 million in available loans after reporting a 5.4 billion dollar trade surplus in the first half of 1983. The Energy Ministry will charge customers one dollar per barrel for heavy crude while officials cite external-sector gains as a sign of recovery amid peso devaluations and debt.
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Mexico City
UPI
Mexico
Energy Ministry
Francisco Suarez
Suarez
International Monetary Fund
U S and Latin Leaders Meet Over Nicaragua Tension
U S special envoy Richard Stone and two Latin presidents met in San Salvador to discuss Central American conflicts as Nicaragua’s Humberto Ortega Saavedra warned of armed resistance to a potential U S backed invasion. Reagan rejected Vietnam like war fears while backing deterrence. Stone had previously met Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins in Caracas bearing a letter from Reagan.
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Humberto Ortega Saavedra
Nicaragua
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Ortega Saavedra
U.S. Navy
Atlantic
Washington
Reagan
Soviet Union
Cuba
Stone
Caracas
Luis Herrera Campins
Contadora Group
PLO rebels and loyalists clash after 14 hour truce
Guerrilla factions supporting and opposing Yasser Arafat shelled each other in east Lebanon around Jdelta and Taanayel near the Bekaa Valley. In the West Bank Hebron, Nablus and East Jerusalem markets faced curfews after the Hebron University shooting left three students dead and 33 wounded. The fighting raised Lebanon’s toll to 26 killed and 48 wounded over four days. Saudi King Fahd urged peace and urged Arab and Islamic leaders to rectify the Palestinian struggle.
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Yasser Arafat
Lebanon
Beirut
Bekaa Valley
Jdelta
Taanayel
Lebanon-Syria
Hebron
East Jerusalem
PLO
U.N. Security Council
Prime Min
Ister Menachem
West Bank
Arafat
Saed Mousa
Bekaa
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Fahd
USSR to ease controls in broad economic experiments
Moscow announced central control will be loosened in a set of experiments to boost production of heavy machinery, electrical equipment, and food. Five ministries will start Jan 1, granting participating enterprises more freedom to reward workers, with details limited and duration unclear.
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Yuri V. Andropov
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Pravda
Andropov
Ministry of Heavy and
Ministry of Electrotechnical Industry
Ministry of Light Industry
Lithuanian Ministry of Local Industry
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