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...responded to the insurgents' rainy-season offensive. On Aug. 7, about 1,500 rebels swarmed into La Trinidad, a town in the department of Esteli, about 60 miles from the Honduran border. Comandante (Colonel) Javier Carrion, 31, the commander of the northern military zone, rushed one counterinsurgency battalion, or BLI, plus local troops to the town and called in air support from three Soviet-built Mi-24 Hind helicopters, the gunships equipped with machine guns and rockets that are being used by the Soviets in Afghanistan. The contras retreated and have not mounted a major assault since. A senior...
Lewis is also the founder-director of the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in Roxbury, the teaching division of the NCAAA. Born in 1922, she received a BLI degree from Emerson in 1943 and a M.Ed. from Boston University a year later. She holds honorary degrees from four colleges--Colby, Boston College, Anna Marie College, and Emerson. She is a fellow of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters...
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