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...addition to the $1.28 million, Texas A&M will receive 30 percent of the first $1.07 million in revenues from the first well, and 75 percent of all revenues thereafter. --Texas A&M Battalion...
...Reagan Administration, meanwhile, is deeply dissatisfied with the performance of the Salvadoran military machine. Its commanders insist on broad and expensive battalion-size sweeps of the countryside, rather than the small-unit, anti-insurgent tactics urged by the U.S. trainers. The high command is rife with political infighting. Complains an official close to Reagan: "We have to deal with barracks politics as well as the attitude of 9-to-5 fighting...
...Diego, the next stop on her month-long visit to North America. The target of the Sun's story, Prince Andrew, was also at sea, after a weekend recreational visit to Florida, with the Royal Navy ship on which he serves, H.M.S. Invincible. Andrew was pursued by a battalion of U.S. and foreign reporters and photographers, frenziedly but fruitlessly seeking signs of a rendezvous between the Prince and soft-porn Actress Koo Stark, 26, or other women...
...most dramatic response to Baker was delivered by Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and spiritual leader of the world's 65 million Anglicans. Runcie, who won the Military Cross for valor as a lieutenant in a Scots Guards tank battalion during World War II, contended that unilateralism would "undermine" disarmament negotiations in Geneva and have a "traumatic effect" on NATO, which he credited with establishing "the peace and stability of Europe" since World...
...great mastery of the battlefield discipline necessary to repel a hypothetical Corinthian advance. The 528 Honduran paratroopers dropped into the war-game zone, for example, spent two full hours attempting to regroup into companies. When one trooper was slightly injured during a faulty jump, other members of his battalion stood idly by rather than carrying him off for medical aid. In public, U.S. military officers had only good things to say about the doleful Honduran performance. But a ranking U.S. officer admitted: "They have a very long way to go before they can be rated as capable of defending their...