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...Enrique Bermudez, the FDN's commander in chief: "Close to 70% of our fighting force has become confined to our camps, defending them on the one hand and awaiting supplies on the other." The main contra base, in the middle of the jungle 30 miles inside Honduras, has a cluster of tents earmarked for logistics, intelligence and personnel. Life at the contra bases consists largely of waiting for meals and intermittent training sessions. From the camps in Costa Rica, the rebels have launched few attacks and seem to spend most of their time fighting the mosquitoes. At the Costa Rican...
...mood was tense as the two men, clad in olive and gray and blinking into the glare of television lights, took their seats before a cluster of microphones in a social hall of the Philippine Ministry of Defense at Camp Aguinaldo. Behind them huddled about a dozen soldiers, some in full battle regalia. Outside, at the gates of the ministry, less than five miles from Malacanang Palace, the presidential residence in downtown Manila, heavily armed guards and tanks stood at the ready. When the two men began to speak, the reason for the precautions became startlingly clear, for they were...
Researchers know very little about cluster suicides. Some may be merely coincidences; others may be self-dramatizing efforts to capture the same outpouring of sympathy that surrounded an earlier death. According to Dr. Mark Rosenberg of Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, clusters probably occur "much more frequently than we find out about." Suicides generally tend to be underreported, he notes, in part because of concern about stigmatizing the deceased. Nonetheless, suicide is the third leading cause of death in - adolescents and young adults. In the 15-to-19-year age group, the suicide rate has almost tripled since...
...object 140 ft. below the surface, and deep-diving submersibles went down to inspect it. There was speculation that the object might be Challenger's main cabin, although a more likely possibility was that it was one of Challenger's three main engines, which could have fallen in a cluster. But Coast Guard Spokesman Lieut. Commander James Simpson warned that "it could be a shrimp boat from 20 years ago or a Spanish galleon from 300 years ago." By week's end the mystery had not been solved. Recovery workers also turned their attention to a 13-ft.-diameter orange...
...cluster of cases against the Mafia that is turning Giuliani into a national figure. His office is currently prosecuting three major cases, including the "Pizza Connection" trial, in which the American and Sicilian , Mafia are accused of importing $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. The jewel in the crown is the "Commission" trial, sometimes called "The Case of Cases," which is set to begin next month. In what could be the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943, the dons of the five...