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Throughout the week, the position of the multinational force was becoming increasingly precarious. U.S. Marines at Beirut airport spent most of Monday night in their bunkers after rockets and artillery shells began to land on the encampment. Dawn was scarcely an hour away when a rocket crashed into a bunker in Alpha Company's position to the east of the airport runway, killing Corporal Pedro Valle Ramos of San Juan, P.R., and Lance Corporal Randy Clark of Minong, Wis. The following day, an artillery shell struck the French military headquarters in West Beirut, killing Lieut. Colonel Louis Sahler...
...month lull in the country's civil war by attacking the center of San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city. After killing at least 20 members of the local garrison and wounding more than 100 in a seven-hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached. The significance of the attack was that in other areas of the country, U.S. military advisers are encouraging the use of Viet Nam-era pacification tactics to thwart the Salvadoran insurgency; the San Miguel assault was the first major guerrilla response to the U.S. strategy. It was also...
Jemison's spirit of social activism does not extend to endorsing Jesse Jackson if he should decide to run for President. Jackson is nonetheless enthusiastic about the Jemison administration, calling it the "dawn of a new era." He notes that N.B.C.U.S.A. is not only the nation's largest black organization but a highly independent one as well. "This group could be the key force in political change in 1984 and beyond," declares Jackson. It remains to be seen whether Jemison will be able to galvanize the latent strength, political and spiritual, of the organization he waited so long...
...over, Aquino's plain wooden coffin, draped with the Philippine national flag, was carried out of the church by 16 pallbearers amid cheers and chants of "Ninoy. Ninoy." When the coffin was placed atop the flower-bedecked platform of a flatbed truck, a crowd that had gathered before dawn went wild. Police estimated that, despite torrential rains, more than 1 million people had gathered along the 19-mile route between the Santo Domingo Church and the Manila Memorial Park cemetery...
...week's end, after six days in space that fulfilled the astronauts' pre-launch hope for a mission that would be technically "routine," Challenger was readied for its first nighttime landing, scheduled to take place five hours before dawn on Monday at California's Edwards Air Force Base...