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...tell their misbehaving children: "Don't do that. Bashir will come and get you." Last week Gemayel's Phalangist militiamen were taking food out of some cars heading into West Beirut and throwing it into the street. Palestinians are afraid that he may order a harsh crack down to drive them out of the country. Said a retired schoolteacher: "Bashir's election means that all the suffering of the last seven years was for nothing. We are worse off" than when the fighting began...
...Government and business, says Wenglowski, the eventual outcome could be, if anything, worse than the stagnation scenario. Interest rates would stay down temporarily, and production might grow rapidly and unemployment drop for a while. But then inflation would reignite, and sooner or later the Federal Reserve would have to crack down again to choke off the miniboom. That scenario would in effect mark a return to the dismal and overlapping inflation-recession cycles...
Joining in the search were three men from Britain's crack Special Air Service, the unit best known for its daring rescue in May 1980 of hostages held in the Iranian embassy in London. The four teams of trackers, occasionally crawling on hands and knees, were able for a time to follow the kidnapers' trail through the bush, but lost the track after local tribesmen drove heir cattle through the area. The government suspects that the villagers were trying to protect the abductors. Indeed, he kidnapers were reportedly hidden overnight by a member of Nkomo's Zimbabwe...
...combat the threat posed by Pastora and the other contras, the Sandinista government is continuing the military buildup that has given Nicaragua the largest army in Central America. Last March it also declared a state of emergency in order to crack down on internal dissent. So far, according to a human rights organization, 300 people have been arrested for counterrevolutionary activities, and some 300 people have been detained and interrogated about their political activities. Many of them are campesinos, who are picked up in groups of 15 or 20 and may be held for more than a month. The Sandinistas...
...most blatant forgery was a letter addressed to Spain's King Juan Carlos last Oct. 23 and ostensibly signed by Reagan; it urged Juan Carlos to crack down on leftists and join NATO (which Spain did in May 1982). The letter was not sent to the King but to Spanish journalists, who ignored it. The KGB allegedly circulated the letter again in November. This time several Spanish newspapers exposed it as a fake...