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Lara, author of If You Plant Winds, You Will Harvest Storms, a 1982 book profiling three leaders of the Colombian rebel group M-19, told reporters she had no idea why she was detained. "Maybe they didn't like the book," she shrugged. From mid-1983 to early 1984, Lara worked as a correspondent in Havana for Caracol Radio, a Colombian station, leading some to speculate that the INS suspected her of ties to the Castro government. But Lara pointed out that she entered the U.S. earlier this year on the same visa, which was issued last fall in Paris...
...Rebel lawyers contended that the arrest was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace talks. Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile denied the charge and insisted the capture was something of a fluke. He said security officers had been conducting a "routine check" into reported guerrilla comings and goings when they stumbled on Salas. The story seemed disingenuous. Shortly before Enrile's explanation, the chief of the national police told reporters that the arrests had followed four months of surveillance...
Typical of the seesaw battle has been the fight for Barikot, a garrison just across the border from the Pakistani town of Arandu. Barikot is a major base of Soviet operations to block rebel supplies from abroad. Since the mujahedin first attacked the northeastern frontier outpost six years ago, the Soviets have broken the siege twice, only to see the rebels re-establish it. Robert Schultheis, an American free-lance writer, recently made his third trip into Afghanistan since the war began -- and his second for TIME -- and observed the fighting around Barikot. His report...
...danse macabre is a reminder of the toll exacted by the ongoing civil war. By now some 20,000 civilians have lost limbs to rebel mines planted among crops, under footpaths and along dusty village roads. Thousands more have been killed by the rebels or by government troops on the prowl for guerrilla collaborators. Economically, the nation has also been left maimed. President Dos Santos concedes that the war has already cost his government more than $12 billion; 1 million of the country's 8.5 million people are on the brink of starvation...
...guarding the ballot boxes; computer technicians hired by the government to do the official count walking out of the fraudulent tabulation; tens of thousands of men and women, with their children about them, in vigil, half in fear, half in joy, guarding with their bodies the small detachment of rebel soldiers; nuns kneeling in the path of oncoming tanks; a nation rising to a new dignity. These images, and more, chronicled for all the world the courage and pride of a people, their deep faith in the rightness of their cause, the protection of God and the ultimate triumph...