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...years following Somoza's downfall, small bands of former National Guardsmen operated along the Honduran border, making hit-and-run attacks inside Nicaragua. The Somocistas, as they were known, were demoralized and poorly organized. The U.S. set about forcing the various factions to unite under a central command, while the CIA began recruiting students, farmers and other civilians to beef up the force. Then, early this year, the Fuerza Democratica Nicaragiiense (F.D.N.) was established to serve as a respectable political front group for the contras. Though the Guardsmen supposedly do not hold leadership positions in the F.D.N., they...
Perhaps more than any other event, a change in command at the Kremlin holds out hope for better relations between Washington and Moscow. It gives the leaders of the nuclear-armed superpowers a fresh slate, free of personal enmity and old misunderstandings. Because a new Soviet leader is, almost by definition, an unknown quantity, he is seen through hopeful Western eyes as a possible friend, or at least something less than an unblinking enemy. And so, now that Yuri Andropov has become only the fourth new Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin died at the height of the cold...
...sleek dark-green Pershing II missile shot up, up and away last Friday in its first successful test firing. "I can tell you there was a sigh of relief back here," said Winant Sidle, a spokesman for manufacturer Martin Marietta. David Harris of the Army Missile Command, who had watched three previous tests go awry, wept as the missile disappeared in a corkscrew of smoke and headed downrange for 66 nautical miles over a desert dotted with sagebrush and yucca. "Congress told us we needed a good firing, and we got one today," he said, his voice choked with emotion...
...turn of the U.S. delegates, Vice President George Bush and Secretary of State George Shultz. The Americans and the Russian looked at each other carefully as Viktor Sukhodrev, who had been Brezhnev's interpreter, translated for Andropov. The new Soviet leader showed no inclination to display his reputed command of English. Knowing they had been invited to talk privately with Andropov in two hours, the Americans then moved on toward a large portrait of Brezhnev, draped in black, that had been set up on a table just beyond the receiving line. Nearly every delegation had stopped to face...
Interviewer: Scotto's certainly is all of that, but in her big sleepwalking scene, she sings with a touching mixture of fury, pathos and resignation. And few divas can command a stage as floridly as Scotto still can. But one controversial production touch is having the dancer who mimes Hecate appear nearly nude during the phantasmagorical ballet...