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...million sets and is pressing on with plans to buy 7 million more at a cost of $227 million. The Army plans to provide at least four sets to each of the more than 778,000 regular soldiers, both men and women, and to 670,000 National Guardsmen. The uniform will also be used by the other services. Nonetheless, alterations are planned. A new line will do away with the reinforced crotch and will place pants pockets lower. A lightweight tropical version will soon be introduced...
Carlos Vides Casanova ran the brutal National Guard in 1980, when a gang of Guardsmen shot to death four American women, all Roman Catholic missionaries. Three weeks ago, retired U.S. District Court Judge Harold Tyler submitted his 101-page special report on the case to the State Department. According to those who have seen the classified document, Tyler found that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador pressed the murder investigations properly. It now seems likely that the five Guardsmen charged with murdering the churchwomen will finally be tried. The Salvadoran government has a large incentive to do justice...
...recipient of the funds the CIA has earmarked for the war. F.D.N. leaders say that the overwhelming majority of their followers are peasants who have become disillusioned by the Sandinista revolution and that only 3% are former members of Somoza's National Guard. But the presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only want to bring back the dictatorship. Last week, in an effort to improve its image, the F.D.N. named Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, former president of the Nicaraguan Chamber...
...some of the rival groups met in Caracas, Venezuela, last month to discuss the possibility of future military coordination, but the momentum toward unity has not continued. The main stumbling block appears to be Pastora, who insists that the F.D.N. purge its military leadership of all former National Guardsmen. Pastora also wants to be recognized as undisputed leader of the contras. As he told TIME, "The other organizations have to join us, operate by our laws and under our political beliefs...
...crowds now gathered. Arsonists lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as some 15,000 police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was paralyzed...