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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks ago, a little girl asked MacDonald for his autograph, pinched his cheeks, and told him he is "cute...
...east of Santa Ana, in Usulutan province, the E.R.P. has consolidated its hold on another mountainous corridor, populated by nearly 200,000 peasants. Three years ago, the insurgents there were under frequent military attack. Civilian support was minimal. Today government troops dare only sporadic attacks, and they are frequently beaten back by peasant militias fighting alongside regular combatants. "We have established political control over the area," says "Raul," the rebel commander, "and now we are moving toward military control as well." He and other guerrilla leaders have lately obtained AK-47 assault rifles. They say the guns were bought from...
...Third World nations. The 15 largest borrowers, most of them in Latin America, have seen their debt climb to more than $500 billion, from $350 billion in 1981. The debt load has left local economies a shambles and fragile democracies threatened. After 300 people died in Venezuela two weeks ago ( during riots over austerity measures imposed to pay off foreign debt, the Bush Administration decided that the time had come...
Five months ago, Anderson's most recent videotaped message was dropped off at a Western news agency in Beirut. Signing off, he said to his family, "Kiss my daughters. Keep your spirits up, and I will try to do the same. One day soon, God willing, this will...
...issue leaped to the fore two weeks ago, when a Michigan housewife, Terry Rakolta, became an instant celebrity for her successful letter-writing campaign against the bawdy Fox network sitcom Married . . . With Children. Responding to her complaints, several major advertisers, including Kimberly- Clark and Procter & Gamble, said they would no longer run ads on the show because of its "offensive" content. The sitcom -- Fox's highest-rated show -- is in no mortal danger: ad time is sold out for the season, Fox officials say, and only one company, Tambrands, actually canceled a scheduled commercial because of Rakolta's complaints...