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...surface and explode on contact. "These mines are scattered indiscriminately at the entrances of ports," says one Nicaraguan officer. Unlike the large cylindrical mines, these "homemade" devices are not commercially produced. But then" manufacture indicates a relatively high level of technical sophistication. Some are disguised with a rubberized cap that makes them look like rocks, and are set off by the wake of a passing ship. Says Eden Pastora, commandant of the wing of anti-Sandinista rebels that claims responsibility for setting explosives in Lake Nicaragua: "We made all the mines ourselves with simple materials that can be purchased...
...scene is far from ordinary. The orthogonals and links between objects give it a tense, mathematical substructure with all manner of arcane rhymes: the triad, for instance, of the red ball on the ground, the globe over the door and the pompon on the boy's cap. The cast of characters is mixed. The man in white might be a baker, or perhaps Christ carrying the lignum crucis; the two boys are Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the twins from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. It did not escape Balthus that Carroll had a thing about little girls...
...Sullivan Principles don't mean any thing in terms of moral behavior It's a publicity feather in their [the Corporation's] cap-nothing else," said Damson A Silvers 86, a member of the South African Solidarity Committee...
...French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood by driving a tractor and cuddling a piglet with black-and-white markings. Said he: "Our pigs tend to be bigger...
...press, on this issue. Weinberger's tendency to blurt out locker-room opinions in the guise of policy was one that I prayed he might overcome. If God heard, He did not answer in any way understandable to me. The arduous duty of construing the meaning of Cap Weinberger's public sayings was a steady drain on time and patience...