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...resupplied. To make matters worse, Florida has been suffering through a decade of sparse rainfall, which has dried up many swamps, at least temporarily. This year the drought is so severe that Governor Bob Graham declared South Florida a disaster area and approved plans for $450,000 worth of cloud seeding...
...more. At precisely 11:25 p.m. E.D.T. next Tuesday, Aug. 25, a second spacecraft, Voyager 2, will finally reach Saturn after a four-year, 1.4 billion-mile flight. Ducking behind the planet (as seen from earth), it will skim to within 63,000 miles of the planet's cloud tops. Then Voyager 2 will plunge through the plane of Saturn's rings, brushing precariously close to that rocky debris. All the while, its cameras and instruments will be working furiously to take advantage of every precious second of the encounter...
...automatic-rifle fire echoed in the cloud-draped mountains along the El Salvador-Honduras border, U.S.-supplied "Huey" transport helicopters banked low over steep, forested gorges, then deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...
...thing was certain: whether the flight was prompted by ideology or a personal disillusionment, the Sandinistas had lost their nation al hero on the eve of their second anniver sary in power - an event that will be celebrated July 19 under the cloud of his departure...
Fassbinder means to contrast death on the Russian front and in the refugee camps (shot in the harsh, primary colors of the Fauves) with life on cloud nine of the Nazi fantasy (shown in the pastel soft-focus of the later Doris Day films). Indeed, one can find hints of the director's auto biography: a contrast between his pinchpenny past and his recent, glossier work. He appears here in the role of a "secret Resistance fighter"-against the Nazis on-screen and the moneymen of the new German cinema. But he puts up too little resistance...