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...landing, four tires blew out as the pilot braked to a stop. When the jetliner screeched to a halt, the forward passenger door flew open, sucking in oxygen and releasing smoke. Though well prepared by the crew for emergency evacuation, passengers had barely 30 seconds to slide down rubber emergency chutes and run 100 ft. before the fuselage erupted in flames. Said one survivor: "Five minutes before landing, we couldn't see anything in the plane for the smoke. It was the kind of situation where you expect someone to scream...
...Face it." Hidlin says we're Afro American. You cannot deny either halt we're Black and American. And this realization is really the next step for Black film as well as Black politics. We have to be more critical, we have to get beyond gross over-simplifications and knee jerk responses to problems of race in this country. Sure we are the disenfranchised from the American Dream Capitalism and communism are both as owedly racist. But we're not moving beyond this rhetorical consciousness. What are we going to do next...
...suspicion and concern about the Reagan Administration's tactics in dealing with Nicaragua. The Administration has long charged the Sandinista regime with funneling arms to and fomenting revolution in neighboring El Salvador at the behest of Cuba and the Soviet Union. The White House has continuously vowed to halt that activity by any means possible. Among those means has been backing the contras, on the grounds that their function has been to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua...
...town, the air was suddenly filled with the sound of machine gunfire. The convoy had come under ambush from a force of 80 to 100 contras hidden between trees on one side of the road and in back of barns on the other. Our driver skidded to a halt and dived out the door, pistol in hand. The three of us and Karen De Young of the Washington Post assumed a position on the floor of the Jeep like quadruplets in utero, with our luggage stacked over our heads against the windows. For five minutes, the Jeep shook from...
...sharply polarized views of the two clerics are the latest, and certainly the most dramatic, signs of the growing Catholic debate on nuclear morality. Three weeks ago, the U.S. hierarchy issued a pastoral letter that challenges Administration policy by calling for a halt to the production and deployment of nuclear weapons. West European bishops have been more cautious in their antinuclear pronouncements...