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...support vessels. Once again, as in the clashes around the Gulf of Sidra three weeks ago, the flattops were prepared to launch their 160 fighters and bombers against targets in the desert country of Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. But this time there was no pretext that the exercise was to assert the right of free passage in international waters...
...last time the Southern states formally banded together to assert their political will, the Civil War broke out. Nothing quite so cataclysmic is likely to ensue from Dixie's creation of a "Mega Tuesday," the first great regional primary. But the rush of Southern and Border states to join in a plan to hold primaries on the same Tuesday early in the 1988 election season--March 8, to be precise--could produce the greatest change in the way party nominees are chosen since the reform movement of the 1970s...
...remembers, "and drank whiskey at a dollar and a half a bottle." This attention to specifics serves him well during what is to follow and gets him into trouble later on. For the Caldas does not run into a storm, as the official Colombian version of the incident will assert. The ship begins listing dangerously in high winds and water; its decks are stacked with washing machines and other appliances from the U.S. that are being illegally ferried to Colombia. As his world begins turning upside down, Velasco expects to hear the order to cut loose the cargo. It never...
Then, having paid tribute to the dead, the politicians went into town to assert the continued resurrection of the opposition movement. As the leaders took the podium at the local Y.M.C.A., 3,000 supporters squeezed into the tiny gymnasium. Perhaps 50,000 others gathered outside in the streets. Some sat on curbsides, some mounted rooftops, some climbed onto telephone booths or trees to hear the call for nonviolent resistance. "Let them back us, imprison us or put us under house arrest," declared Kim Young Sam. "This is the way Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. won victory." Throughout the four...
...support for the less popular policy of aiding the contras. "Americans understand what type of people we have to deal with in this world," said White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan, speaking of Gaddafi, "and they expect that from time to time we as a great power have to assert our right. That has to carry over into the Central America issue. & Sure, contra aid is a divisive issue in a dirty little war, but it takes courage to do what's right in that situation...