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Washington says the rebels requested only that U.S. forces prevent two units of about 200 men with light infantry weapons from reaching Noriega at his headquarters. The Americans at Fort Amador obstructed the movement of the P.D.F. 5th Infantry Company, which shares the Amador base. American units from Howard Air Force base were positioned to block the nearby Bridge of the Americas over the canal to prevent the arrival of the P.D.F. 7th Infantry Company from its base some 60 miles southwest of the capital. In neither case were U.S. forces challenged...
Battat says that, if elected, his first actions in office will be to form ad-hoc committees--a forum which he says served him well--on ROTC and on campus racism. In addition, he cites the need to "be creative" in rebuilding the council's financial base after heavy losses from a poorly attended Suzanne Vega concert...
President Alan Garcia of Peru met Presidents Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia at an air force base near Pisco, 45 miles northwest of Ica. They flew by helicopter to the Las Dunas hotel outside this city of 350,000 in the coastal desert 185 miles southeast of Lima...
Comparisons to final clubs do not end there. Although Sigma Alpha Mu's local officers say that their group will not base membership on race, religion or soci-economic status, members acknowledge that the group is all male and relatively homogenous...
...taxes to be levied this year will come from personal property, while commerce and industry will bear 65 percent of the tax burden, said Kevin T. McDevitt, one of the city's two principal assessors. He added that residential property will make up the lowest percentage of the tax base in recent history...