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June 1984 Issue
June 1984 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Machines as Collaborators
    Stephen Holden
  • Comfortable on the Coast
    Wendy Lowe
  • Cuban Baseball
    Bruce Brown
  • Fortress America
    Thomas Powers
  • City of the Wimps
    Rhoda Koenig
  • The Nation's Conscience
    Richard Ellmann

Honduras: Regional Pawn

A piece in a political chess game, Honduras wavers between militarism and democracy

By Jonathan Evan Maslow
June 1984 Issue
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