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...organization survives to strike again and again from the shadows. The grim challenge posed by terrorism's renegade mastermind is that he will continue to break new and bloody ground, not only in his selection of victims but also in the use of innovative methods for managing his brutal enterprise. --By George Russell. Reported by David Halevy/Washing ton and Scott McLeod/Cairo
...decades, the mostly poor and illiterate people of Haiti (pop. 6 million) have accepted their fate at the hands of corrupt dictators. But in recent months a combination of blatant economic mismanagement, lavish corruption surrounding President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and brutal repression of those who protest his regime has brought increasing numbers of Haitians to a stark conclusion: enough is enough...
...leaders say that with the breakdown of peace talks a year ago, they are even more intent on waging a prolonged conflict designed to destabilize the Duarte government and sap military morale. Their tactics, as detailed by a top E.R.P. official in Morazán, will be as blunt and brutal as ever: urban warfare, including kidnapings like that last fall of Duarte's daughter Inés; economic sabotage, like blowing up power stations; and the outright murder of U.S. advisers and officials. "In the long run, killing Yanquis is a form of undermining Reagan's policies," declared the rebel official...
...questions. It ends nearly two decades before Schneider's career did; his widow Jean writes that he left the makings of another volume, but does not explain how anyone could authentically complete it. Still, Entrances has so much to say that it underlines the loss caused by Schneider's brutal exit. It also provides what the ephemeral work of stagecraft cannot: a director's lasting legacy. --By William A. Henry...
...business has been brutal this year. Sometimes the old Cowboy Cliff Harris, 37, misses "a defined field where flags are thrown." Then he smiles and remembers the singular instant of Super Bowl X, when, for mocking Roy Gerela's missed field goal, he was body-slammed by Linebacker Jack Lambert. "In Dallas, logical thoughts were ingrained," Harris says, "emotional reactions discouraged. The funny thing is, you know how to play the best when you can no longer play at all. Even watching games now, the emotions of football flow through me, but I'm still in my mind a thinking...