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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with political assassinations and minor acts of sabotage. Marxist Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez is determined to crush this threat, even if doing so belies the new regime's promise of a "generous revolution." Last week the decomposed body of Somoza Loyalist Pablo Emilio Salazar, the flamboyant "Commandante Bravo" of the national guard, was found in Honduras' capital of Tegucigalpa. Salazar had been tortured, and shot six times. By week's end his assassins were still unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: A Coup Against Chaos | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Bravo for the wealth of insights in Mr. Kissinger's excerpts. Perhaps I am a typical American who "tends to see international relations in terms of the play of individual personalities," but I wish that Mr. Kissinger would write some of the same type of clear and precise in-depth reviews of world leaders and geopolitical situations on some sort of regular basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1979 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...thorough consideration" to that request, even though Managua has lately become a mecca for Marxist mischief makers from around the world. The Sandinistas claim that they need the arms to ward off a possible counterattack by 7,000 national guardsmen that Somoza's legendary combat leader, Commandante Bravo, claims to have standing by in Honduras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Victors Organize | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...Ignored as an exploitation film upon its initial release in 1976, it is Carpenter's second feature (his first was a science-fiction spoof expanded from a film school project, called Dark Star.) The basic situation and central characters, actors' mannerisms and shards of dialogue are derived from Rio Bravo, a late Howard Hawks film. Assault largely inexperienced cast lurches beneath the preposterous weight of a self-consciously anachronistic script. The dialogue is as tersely as any Hawk's film, and it is often difficult to tell whether the actors mouthing it are sarcastic or inept. All the same, spry...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Nuts and Jolts | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...Bravo for Richard Mitchell [Jan. 29]. Every city in the U.S. that has a newspaper, TV station or radio station needs an Underground Grammarian to guard against further deterioration of the English language and to re-create in the mind and ear of the public a sense of pride in the ability to communicate accurately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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