| Comment | 2 |
| Taking Note | 3 |
| BRAZILIAN DEBT Eleventh Hour Bail-Out | 5 |
| Dziobek, Claudia | |
| COSTA RICA Modernizing the Non-Army | 9 |
| Hutchcroft, Jayne & Edelman, Marc | |
| In Review | 12 |
| EL SALVADOR 1984 | 13 |
| Locked in Battle | 14 |
| The Forces of the Right | 18 |
| The Military Balance | 24 |
| Amalgamation on the Left | 31 |
| The Silenced Majority | 36 |
| Washington Certifies the War | 41 |
| 1984 and After | 46 |
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