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...game. A lieutenant in Tour of Duty gets drunk in a bar and empties the place by wildly firing his gun. A few seconds later, a bomb explodes inside, and he is hailed as a hero. Notes a smarmy major: "You're the first good publicity the command has had since...
Shortly before dawn, the rebellion achieved its goal: the ouster of General Alfredo Stroessner, 76. As Stroessner was held unharmed under house arrest at an army residence, his longtime second-in-command and chief of the First Corps, General Andres Rodriguez, made a radio address. "I communicate to you that General Stroessner has surrendered and finds himself in perfect health, deprived of liberty." Rodriguez soon took the oath as provisional President...
...case of a nuclear attack. One called for the emergency evacuation by helicopter, from the South Lawn, of the President and the 50 or so people who made up the heart of the Government. They were to be whisked to the Blue Ridge Mountains and secreted in a command post under 600 ft. of stone, from there to run the war and the nation. Some newsmen were to be included to send out dispatches on presidential decisions, should any printing presses or broadcast facilities be left standing. We were ordered to stay within 20 minutes of the White House...
...publicity is as huge as the issue itself. A giant poster of last year's SI cover girl Elle Macpherson has been hanging in the window of Out of Town News for the past week. The last issue to command such attention was not about the Olympics but featured Elle's 1988 photo session in Florida...
Diplomats and political sources said earlier Thursday that Rodriguez for undetermined reasons apparently was ordered to give up his command and retire, or accept the post of defense minister. He refused...