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Scott said that several times he and other workers have had threatening phone calls. "One time a guy called and said he was going to put a bullet through my brain," he said. In another instance vandals set fire to the door of the store. And two months ago, someone threw a smoke bomb into the main room of the store...
...surreptitious battleground used by Nicaraguan exiles in a growing counter-revolutionary war against their homeland. U.S. Air Force pilots learned about the covert war the hard way during Big Pine: two days after the exercise began, a U.S. C-130 transport aircraft was sent back to the U.S. with bullet holes in its tail assembly...
NICARAGUA. Smoke and the stench of death hung over the isolated Nicaraguan village of Bismuna last week. Bullet holes pocked the wooden sides of the tiny thatched huts that cluster on stilts along the bank of a small river, 20 miles from the Honduran border. A concrete schoolhouse stood blackened and gutted by mortar fire. Brown-shirted members of Bismuna's Sandinista militia defense force gathered up unexploded mortar rounds and other debris of battle. Jorge Vargas Lopez, 38, a combat veteran who fought in Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista revolution of 1979, pointed to boot tracks near...
Twenty years ago, the view was different. Seikan was hailed as a technological "dawn for Asia." With 25 million people expected to travel between the islands each year, it would allow bullet trains to supplant aging ferries and slash travel times...
Since then, however, projections have become less rosy, as economic setbacks hit Japan. Last year only 2.4 million people used the ferries. The Japanese National Railways, already $78 billion in the red, balked at adding a bullet line that stood to lose still more. Meanwhile, 33 tunnel workers have died in accidents, and the original $1 billion price tag will have tripled by the end of the project. What to do with the tunnel when it is finally completed? One suggestion is to use it for oil storage. Another is to grow mushrooms in it. After all, the moisture...