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...most intriguing exhibits were blurry "low light" television footage taken from U.S. AC-130 reconnaissance aircraft off the Salvadoran coast. According to General Paul Gorman, head of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, one series of images showed a Nicaraguan "mother ship" unloading crates into small seagoing canoes. The canoes then speed toward shore near El Salvador's Lempa River, where the cargo was packed onto mules and taken inland. To novice viewers, the film sequence resembled nothing more than a series of large and small white blobs. Gorman insisted, however, that the film showed only about...
...disqualified for striking a blow after the Yugoslav referee had ordered a break. Never mind that the punch knocked out Barry; never mind that Barry had been fouling Holyfield and was on the verge of disqualification; never mind that Holyfield probably could not have heard the referee's command over the crowd noise. But do bring to mind the moment when Barry gallantly raised Holyfield's arm in acknowledgment of the American's triumph. A U.S. protest was ultimately disallowed, and a disappointed Holyfield had to settle for the bronze. Barry won the silver, leaving Yugoslav Anton...
There was Light Flyweight Paul Gonzales, 20, for example, 106 Ibs. of controlled barrio macho with an elegant command of the ring. Favoring an injured right arm, Gonzales disposed of his Venezuelan opponent in the semifinals by scoring repeatedly with a classic left jab. He won his final in a walkover when his opponent, Salvatore Todisco of Italy, turned out to have broken a thumb in a previous bout. Ten years ago, Gonzales was running with the violent gangs of predominantly Hispanic East Los Angeles. Taken in hand by Sympathetic Cop Al Stankie, Gonzales emerged as a home-town hero...
Despite some improvement, the overall performance of El Salvador's army remains "checkered." So testified General Paul Gorman, head of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, in an appearance last week before a House subcommittee. Indeed, two days earlier, a dawn guerrilla raid on three villages west of San Salvador left 63 civil-defense guards and three civilians dead. Army reinforcements did not arrive until the afternoon, after the fighting had ended...
...magazine, a glossy monthly with 77,000 well-heeled subscribers (average household income: $147,000). It has an avid following on Wall Street for its irreverent reporting and its annual ratings of securities analysts. Kaplan will stay on as editor in chief of the magazine, but music will also command his attention. He plans to conduct the Mahler work again, with the London Symphony Orchestra...