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...gaily colored Air Florida 737 jet from Miami had barely taxied to a halt at the Tegucigalpa airport when a column of trucks loaded with Honduran policemen careered across the runway to head it off. As police surrounded the aircraft, troops slithered down ropes from helicopters hovering overhead and flung themselves on the ground with rifles ready. The cause of their concern: the arrival of 40 clergywomen, the first planeload of 140 American and Canadian nuns and lay workers headed for a four-day prayerful protest against U.S. policy in Central America. The Honduran government barred the other 100 even...
...than expected. The Saudis and the Soviets, reluctant to see Arafat destroyed, began putting considerable pressure on Syria to accept a ceasefire. The pleas at first were ignored, but then Assad was hospitalized. Though it is impossible to say what role the President's illness played, Syria approved the halt in fighting. "His sickness prevented Assad from engaging in the extensive diplomacy necessary to resist the demands for a cease-fire," speculates a Western ambassador in Damascus. "Perhaps the decision was made to take the easy...
...union threw up picket lines in an attempt to halt bus travel. Yet Greyhound began hiring more than 1,000 new workers who were willing to defy the union, and was serving 500 locations in 27 states. Said Chairman John Teets: "Everyone misunderstood the resolve of this company to operate...
...crossed willy-nilly: ASAT target practice in space may start, the Senate stipulated, but only if the U.S. tries "to negotiate in good faith with the Soviet Union a mutual and verifiable ban on anti-satellite weapons." Says Republican Senator Charles Percy: "This is a unique opportunity to halt a major arms race before it gets off the ground." As progress on other U.S.-Soviet arms-control fronts slows and sputters, that opportunity seems urgent indeed and the consequences of missing it profound. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Jerry Hannifin and Christopher Redman/ Washington, with other bureaus
...intermediate-range weapons in Europe-the Kremlin warned that NATO had "destroyed the basis for talks." The Soviets maintained that the stationing of any new U.S. missiles was unacceptable because it would upset the balance that they claimed already existed in Europe. They proposed a freeze: the U.S.S.R. would halt further deployment on its side in exchange for NATO's cancellation of its plans to install a new generation of nuclear weapons in Europe...