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When U.S. forces first arrived in Honduras last summer, an enthusiastic welcome awaited them. The American trainers quickly whipped the lackadaisical local forces into shape and upgraded the Honduran arsenal: in place of World War I-vintage French equipment, it now includes at least two dozen 105-mm howitzers. The Americans were further encouraged in their mission by the effective leader of the country, Army Commander in Chief Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, a zealous friend of the U.S. and sworn enemy of the Sandinista regime...
...hypnosis and biofeedback have "earned respectable places in the pain-clinic arsenal," while chiropractors get lumped "outside standard medicine" with herbal treatments and faith healing. Thanks to my chiropractor, I am virtually pain-free today because he knew where to look when "medical doctors" failed me. Barbara J. Knill Lakewood, Ohio...
...many people were killed or injured remains a mystery. According to some counts, as many as a third of the surface-to-air and cruise missiles in the arsenal of the Soviet navy's northern fleet went up in smoke. But U.S. officials warned against attaching too much strategic importance to the accident. If an actual conflict came, said a senior Administration Kremlin watcher, the Soviets would "fire what they had on hand...
...fact, faster talks were just what the new Administration did not want. It preferred to stall as long as possible and concentrate on quantitative and qualitative improvements in the American arsenal so that eventually, if and when the U.S. did return to the bargaining table with the Soviet Union, it could do so from a position of far greater strength, if not superiority...
...making her decision to attack, the Prime Minister relied largely on Indian intelligence reports indicating that Bhindranwale and his followers were stockpiling vast quantities of weapons inside the temple. Said one report: "Bhindranwale has an arsenal of weapons any guerrilla army in the Third World would be proud to call its own. He is preparing to attack the government...