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South Africa has made no secret of its intention to step up military operations against the guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and their bases in southern Angola. Last week the South African military command made good on the threat, pushing air-supported ground troops some 60 miles deep into Angola, clashing with Angolan troops, and bringing the 14-year-old bush war to a new and ominous stage. The purpose of South Africa's latest incursion: to strike at SWAPO sanctuaries and supply bases in Angola, with the possible side effect of strengthening...
...says Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, commander in chief of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, in reference to beleaguered El Salvador. Nutting has reason for his surprisingly frank-and gloomy- assessment. Yet another offensive by an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 leftist guerrillas has been under way in the Central American republic for several weeks. The insurgents are more than holding their own: they are inflicting heavy casualties on El Salvador's undertrained 10,000-man army and simultaneously dealing painful blows to the nation's economy. In the process, they are forcing U.S. military instructors...
Voyager came closest to Saturn just before the 1½-hour period when the spacecraft was behind the planet, totally cut off from the earth. But the semi-intelligent machine continued operations under the command of its preprogrammed computers, taking pictures, performing experiments and storing the information on tape. Not until Voyager 2 emerged from behind Saturn and again began radioing back data did scientists learn that something had gone wrong. As Voyager 2 crossed the rings, the playback showed, the cameras began missing their targets. Somehow the spacecraft's movable "scan platform," which acts as an aiming mechanism...
News of the incident reached Washington within six minutes. As soon as he was notified by the U.S. European Command, at 1:26 a.m. E.D.T., the director for operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Lieut. General Philip Gast, called General David Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. The Defense Secretary in turn alerted other key Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Richard Allen and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese III. Allen and Meese, who were in Los Angeles with President Ronald Reagan, received the news at 11 p.m. local time...
...About one hundred! But Viennese answer is better: we say, "I keep passing the open windows." This is an old joke. There was a street clown called King of the Mice: he trained rodents, he did horoscopes, he could impersonate Napoleon, he could make dogs fart on command. One night he jumped out his window with all his pets in a box. Written on the box was this: "Life is serious but art is fun!" I hear his funeral was a party. A street artist had killed himself. Nobody had supported him but now everybody missed him. Now who would...