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Elsewhere, the guerrillas had some temporary successes. They fomented an insurrection in the garrison of Santa Ana, the country's second largest city; an army captain and 80 soldiers defected to the guerrillas. Heavy fighting continued for days, as leftist troops penetrated several provincial cities before being thrown back. They seized San Francisco Gotera, the capital of eastern Morazan department, and it took government troops three days to break the cordon around the city and recapture...
...briefly as a trucker's assistant - before becoming a salesman of yachts and other pleasure craft in 1971. Last year he started a firm that markets gasohol equipment for farmers. More recently, Mike has become a stockholding senior vice president of the Southern Pacific Title Co., a Santa Ana firm that sells real estate title insurance, and is now negotiating to do a radio commentary show on current affairs. During the campaign, Mike sometimes critiqued the elder Reagan's style: "I'd tell him that he should come across strong more often." In turn, Reagan has given...
More often than not, the victim's "crime" is merely suspected sympathy for the wrong political organization. Some of the most bitterly resented violence has been committed by the government's own security forces. Police in the city of Santa Ana last week attacked a hospital ostensibly used to treat injured leftists. They machine-gunned to death three doctors, four nurses and a baby. Later, military officials claimed the victims had resisted. Said a local lawyer, incredulously: "With what, their stethoscopes?" Peasants, in particular, are caught in a catch-22 dilemma. Leftist guerrilla organizations often give farmworkers...
Marine Staff Sergeant Michael Robinson, 26, works as a career planner at El Toro Marine Base near Santa Ana, Calif., charged with persuading first-term Marines to reenlist. Now, ironically, Robinson himself is leaving the service after eight years, passing up a $10,000 re-enlistment bonus, to manage apartment houses. Says Robinson: "I like the corps but I can't get by with the low pay and the diminishing benefits...
From the Toyota Tercel driver on the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles to the Volkswagen Rabbit owner dodging potholes on the F.D.R. Drive on Manhattan's East Side, the American-built car has become an object of derision and jokes. All too many American drivers now consider the cars they once fawned over to be simply too big, too heavy and too expensive. As car sales continue a yearlong slump and the auto industry faces its gravest crisis ever, an increasingly anxious public is asking: Why can't Detroit build more and better small cars...