Finding Our Way: Toward Maturity in U.S.-Latin American Relations by Howard J. WiardaReview by: Abraham F. LowenthalForeign Affairs, Vol. 66, No. 4, The Defense Debate (Spring, 1988), p. 880Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043521 .

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880 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

concessions made by Mexico's ruling elite have solidified control by the

governing party, the PRI. PAN, the largest opposition party, is reduced to

being a negative voice for the disenchanted among the urban middle class, while the left has not been able to build appreciable strength, even in

conditions of economic crisis.

FINDING OUR WAY: TOWARD MATURITY IN U.S.-LATIN AMER ICAN RELATIONS. By Howard J. Wiarda. Washington: American Enter

prise Institute, 1988, 304 pp. $27.50 (paper, $16.75). A handy compilation of 15 essays by an academic Latin Americanist well

connected with the Washington policymaking community during the Rea

gan years. Although the book suffers from some of the repetition and

internal contradictions that almost inevitably mar such endeavors, the volume's main argument emerges clearly: "The Reagan administration's Latin American policy has evolved significantly since January 1981 and become far more nuanced and mature." A stimulating work.

NICARAGUA V. UNITED STATES: A LOOK AT THE FACTS. By Robert F. Turner. Washington: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1987, 165 pp. A

Special Report of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. This monograph draws on unclassified and declassified material to sup

port its quasi-legal brief for U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras. Perhaps the most interesting section discusses the well-publicized "CIA training

manual" that U.S. agents provided the contras, in which certain passages

appeared to recommend the use of terror tactics. Turner argues that this was not a CIA manual but a translated U.S. Army document; that its basic contents and tone were misrepresented; that the offending passages may

well have been planted and leaked by a Sandinista "mole" in the contra

high command; and that in any case the passages do not necessarily mean

what they seem to say. In effect, this volume offers the case that the United States (despite the author's recommendation) did not present before the International Court of Justice; it should be considered together with the

Court's judgment of June 27, 1986.

Western Europe Fritz Stern

EUROPE: MORE THAN A CONTINENT. By Sir Michael Butler. Lon

don: Heinemann, 1988, 184 pp. (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles,

distributor, $34.95). Sir Michael, an old hand in the British Foreign Service, was Britain's

permanent representative to the EEC from 1971 to 1985. This?anglocen

tric?essay is quite interesting on Britain's fight concerning the Commission

of the European Communities budget and on Mrs. Thatcher's formidable

style. A moderately optimistic account of how the Brussels machinery works?and should work in the future.

FRANCO: A BIOGRAPHY. By Juan Pablo Fusi. New York: Harper &

Row, 1988, 202 pp. $25.00. A fair-minded critical assessment of the man who for 40 years was Spain's

dictator. It depicts him as being originally an old-fashioned nationalist

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