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...wounded. A few guerrillas went door to door in communities with leaflets urging people not to vote. Once the balloting was over, however, the guerrillas returned to the offensive, blowing up power stations outside San Salvador and the regional center San Miguel. Late last week a five-member commando group of guerrillas held 73 people hostage for a day in a supermarket in San Salvador, after police foiled a rebel holdup. Eventually, the guerrillas gave up the hostages in exchange for an offer of refuge in Mexico...
...Christian Phalange and Lebanese Army checkpoints without incident, then suddenly spotted a Syrian checkpoint straight ahead. Realizing that they had strayed into hostile territory, they turned the car around and tried to flee. Syrian soldiers opened fire on the retreating auto and gave chase. By the time a special commando team from Israel had been sent to the scene in an effort to rescue its stranded countrymen, the three officials had been captured. They were flown to Damascus, where the Syrian government announced that they would be held as prisoners...
...Gumaa was in relatively good shape when he was captured, which would imply he was killed later by the Israelis. The official statements have done little to dispel the mystery. The first announcement, coming about an hour after the commando raid, did not mention the terrorists at all, while the second statement eight hours later simply said all four had been killed. It was not until the next day that an Israeli army spokesman stated that "two terrorists were killed when our forces broke into the bus. The other two died later, on the way to the hospital...
...since the contras could hardly have placed the mines on then" own. Then, a bit more than a week ago, word leaked that the CIA had stowed the mines aboard a mother ship and dispatched them into Nicaraguan harbors aboard small, fast boats manned by CIA-recruited and -trained commando teams. Indeed, some members of the House Intelligence Committee now contend they have been told by the CIA that the contras'role in the operation was primarily to serve as front men; most of the commandos were Salvadorans...
...PLAY. No software library would be complete without a finger-twitching arcade game, and one of this season's bestsellers is Broderbund's Lode Runner, a climbing, jumping, chase adventure. The player controls a realistically animated galactic commando, who must recover a fortune in stolen gold before he is nabbed by a gang of bare-chested imperial guards. The program also lets creative gamesters design their own underground labyrinths. For Apple, Atari and Commodore computers...