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Nowhere was the scandal played as such unabashedly good news as in Nicaragua, whose Marxist-led Sandinista government hoped it would be a major blow to the chances of continued U.S. support of the contra guerrillas. President Daniel Ortega claimed the Sandinistas had known all along that the U.S. was conducting a campaign to keep antigovernment forces supplied in defiance of congressional prohibition. The Sandinistas hope the prohibition, lifted in October after Congress voted to send $100 million in U.S. aid over the next year, will be clamped back...
...bikini has arrived in the People's Republic. After a year of competing in demure, one-piece suits, the country's female body builders are creating a sensation with their new sports uniforms. The first blow for navel liberation was struck in September by four competitors at a provincial contest. "A sudden hail of deafening screams and whistles broke out," reported the biweekly Shenzhen Youth Herald. "The four girls trembled at the center of the stage and slowly lowered their heads." When the hall finally quieted and the athletes raised their heads to strike their poses, the 500 spectators went...
...surrounded by guys he never would have met back in the "world." Urban blacks were importing tactics of street survival to the jungle; Southern farm boys were digging foxholes that might be their graves. You established camaraderie with your sergeant by taking a whiff of marijuana that he'd blow through a rifle barrel. And too soon you were inside the madness of frontline patrols, a captive of the heat, the exhaustion, the insects, the hatred of men whose whims your life hung on. Every night you were shooting at V.C. soldiers, kids your age who were so close...
...table midmeal, refold your napkin and put it on your chair. When you leave the table for good, put your napkin, neatly folded, to the right of your plate. And if you don't like the food, eat it anyway. Says Von Sperling: "I'm not going to blow a million-dollar deal by offending my hostess. Just open wide and swallow...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...