| Comment | 2 |
| Taking Note | 3 |
| NICARAGUA'S ELECTIONS Another Battlefront | 4 |
| Jenkins, Tony | |
| CERRO MARAVILLA DEATHS Police Cover-up Rocks Puerto Rico | 9 |
| Nelson, Anne | |
| TRILATERALISM Renovated for the 1980s | 12 |
| Sklar, Holly | |
| GUATEMALA'S LABOR MOVEMENT Coke Victory Spurs Recovery | 15 |
| Slaughter, Jane | |
| In Review | 18 |
| ARE THE DEMOCRATS DIFFERENT? | 19 |
| Armstrong, Robert | |
| The Crisis | 20 |
| The Ascendancy of the Right | 24 |
| Liberalism in Decline | 31 |
| Democrats in Disarray | 41 |
| Central America, November and Beyond | 50 |
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