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Every day, around the globe, the hearts and minds of people like Deepak Kumar-as well as his parents and friends-are reached on a battlefield in the East-West struggle where words are the chief weapons. With their troops occupying Afghanistan and massed to pounce on Poland, the Soviets have a lot to explain these days. Through a propaganda effort perhaps seven times as large as that of the U.S., and with more sophistication than ever before, they are doing just that...
...source of power in an insurgency war lies with the people," said Major General Charles Lloyd, commander of the joint South African and local force. "The population is the battlefield." In the largely "pacified" Caprivi Strip, some 60% of the South African security forces are now made up of local blacks serving under white officers...
...Duarte's policy in dealing with dissidents, President Reagan has instead expressed horror at Soviet support of El Salvador's casualty-ridden guerrilla forces. Rather than reevaluating U.S. policy toward the Central American nation in order to ascertain if it is indeed important enough to turn into the next battlefield of Soviet and U.S. warfare, the Reagan administration is currently deliberating just how much the United States should escalate its aid. The answer is, of course, that the United States should cease all military funding to Duarte's repressive regime. But Reagan's withdrawal of moderate ambassador Robert White indicates...
With the morning mists come the legends, the old bugle calls, the tramp of sure feet, voices raised in liberty's arguments. Soon enough Reagan will be down on the battlefield with Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, and his days will be ordered by the cables from Moscow and the Middle East. But, for the moment, he lives in a special glory that is granted to all new Presidents as they wait on Pennsylvania Avenue for the day when they can enter the White House...
...easy being a bombshell on a battlefield. While filming High Risk, in which she plays a dizzy drug runner on the lam from a Mexican jail, Lindsay Wagner was repeatedly pelted and singed by bullets and shells. "I got third-degree burns from a machine gun," she groans, "and no matter what I did, the shells kept bouncing off me. The men in those sequences had jackets, boots and dungarees, while my body was exposed in this off-the-shoulder blouse and a sack skirt." Wagner was comforted somewhat by a cuddly black panther cub, one of her costars...