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NATION, Page 13Grapevine
ROLE MODELS. Abandoned by Washington and their Honduran hosts,
the anti-Communist Nicaraguan contras are drawing inspiration from
a most unlikely source: El Salvador's Marxist Farabundo Marti
National Liberation Front. Contra leaders say the "low-intensity,
dirty war" the Salvadoran rebels wage, focusing on economic
sabotage, is the way to go for guerrillas with limited resources.
DAUGHTER DEAREST II. If Patti Davis annoyed her parents Ronald
and Nancy Reagan with her debut novel, Home Front -- about a
befuddled former Governor of California and his ambitious wife --
she's sure to send them around the bend with her second book,
Deadfall. Due out in October, it's a political potboiler with a
familiar plot: a right-wing Administration searches for a pretext
to invade Nicaragua. The characters include a fanatical CIA
director, a colonel who stops at nothing and a President who
becomes a willing pawn of the villains. So much for a family
reconciliation.
"HOT RABBIT." What does Argentina's Carlos Saul Menem have that
his predecessor Raul Alfonsin did not? Apparently, a long list of
girlfriends. Two gossipy French magazines, Le Nouvel Observateur
and L'Evenement, have said in print what Argentines had been
whispering: that the new President is one "hot rabbit." L'Evenement
dedicated two pages to the President's amorous adventures, quoting
some of the many lovers he reportedly had before and during his
23-year marriage. Argentines must hope their new President is as
good at foreign affairs as he is at domestic one.