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...that Honduras will maintain its steady if somewhat confusing effort to consolidate its fledgling democracy. When the new President takes office on Jan. 27, replacing outgoing President Roberto Suazo Córdova, it will mark the first time in nearly 60 years that power has been transferred peacefully from one civilian government to another. Still, the powerful Honduran military is likely to continue to involve itself in key policy matters...
...fight back, their efforts illustrated the complexities and perils of antiterrorist action: the U.S. capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers strained relations with Egypt and Italy, while 60 passengers on the EgyptAir jet were dead after Egyptian commandos stormed the grounded plane in Malta. But in Argentina the elected civilian government of President Raśl Alfonsin sentenced to long prison terms five members of the former military junta who were convicted of practicing what might be called state terrorism: the kidnaping, torture and killing of innocent citizens...
...Congress will kick the law into force by producing an estimate of the current fiscal year's looming deficit, probably about $200 billion. To limit the shortfall this year, Reagan will be forced by Gramm-Rudman to order cuts totaling some $11.7 billion, half from defense and half from civilian spending that has not been specifically exempted. These reductions, known in federalese as sequestrations, will take effect March 1. Says Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici: "It's going to come as a shock to a lot of people who voted for this that there will be sequestering in March...
Impatient with the organizational snarl, some Congressmen want to establish the Special Forces as an entirely separate service. Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine is pushing a plan that would carve out all of the Special Forces missions performed by the military and put them under a new civilian-run agency, reporting to the Secretary of Defense, that would control and deploy the units...
...fleet of civilian aircraft is generally well regarded. While the Boeing 747 was involved in both the Air-India and the Japan Air Lines disasters, pilots still give the jumbo jet high marks. One British Airways captain, referring to the 747's ability to tolerate errors, calls the plane "the most forgiving thing that flies." Experts are concerned, though, that some carriers may be flying their aircraft too long. "The problem of an aging fleet is a constant one," says John Galipault, president of the Aviation Safety Institute, an Ohio-based consumer watchdog group. "Planes are like people--you have...