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...House official: "It's not our biggest win. But it's one of the most satisfying in terms of both content and the fact that we came from behind." Opponents were more pessimistic, predicting that the aid would lead to greater U.S. military involvement in support of a corrupt rebel force. Said Michigan Democrat David Bonior: "The contra program has been rotten from the start...
Contra leaders say the assistance will at last allow them to map out a plausible military strategy. "We can program ahead for the next 16 to 17 months," said Alfonso Robelo, one of the three top rebel political chiefs who lead the United Nicaraguan Opposition. "For the first time we can count on more permanent support." But the military aid will also put pressure on the contras to show some results in Nicaragua. Insisted Louisiana Democrat and Contra Backer Buddy Roemer: "There will be no blank checks for the contras...
Hollywood's magic moments used to be mostly quiet ones: Rick telling Sam to play it again in Casablanca, Charles Foster Kane muttering his dying "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane. The memorable screen moments of recent years are more, well, eye-catching. A fleet of rebel spaceships enters the Death Star for a climactic battle against the Empire's forces in Return of the Jedi. The shards of a stained-glass window are transformed into a sword-wielding knight in Young Sherlock Holmes. Runaway mine cars career at a breakneck pace through hairbreadth twists and turns in Indiana Jones...
...Class of '61 entered Harvard in an era of complacency, convertible Thunderbirds and "the rebel without a cause." They emerged with a Kennedy-inspired optimism to do what they could for a country caught up in the civil rights movement and Vietnam War protests...
...People's Army, the Communist guerrilla group that mounted a campaign of violence against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. The former President is in exile, and Ching, pregnant with her first child, is weary of the hardships of guerrilla life. Last week she and 167 other rebels laid down their guns and met privately with President Corazon Aquino at a Roman Catholic monastery in the southeastern city of * Davao, where rebel activity has been strong. Said Ching: "Now there's hope for a new life...