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...Anastasio Somoza Debayle, which the U.S. implicitly encouraged. But Nicaragua joined with the Soviets and Cubans to preach Marxist-Leninist revolution through the region. Even the Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Committee found last year that the Salvadoran "insurgency depends for its lifeblood-arms, ammunition, financing, logistics and command-and-con-trol facilities-upon outside assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba." The crucial question is how far the Administration intends to go with its support of the contras. Its original stated aim-interdicting the flow of arms to the Salvadoran rebels-was morally valid if practically difficult...
...neighborhood residents say the financial compensation is not adequate "The $16,000 per year... amounts to approximately 16 cents per resident of Cambridge," the neighborhood's "con" statement says. "Let us forego this bounty and stand united in opposition to the gallery-connector... this proposal is detrimental to our neighborhood...
...those programs were too bewildering, there were exhibitors at Soft-con promising to help customers separate the software wheat from the fast-growing pile of programmed chaff. ITM, of Walnut Creek, Calif, demonstrated a new computerized method for obtaining instant critical reviews of 4,000 products. Stewart Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs, announced the first issue of the Whole Earth Software Review, a quarterly magazine that will pick and pan products. Another publisher, Software Digest, unveiled a $14.95 Ratings Book, which compares 30 word-processing programs written for the IBM Personal Computer. Says Spokesman Harold Poliskin: "We want...
Indeed, film composers have adopted the synthesizer at a tempo approaching allegro con brio. Giorgio Moroder has given it prominence in his scores for Midnight Express, Cat People and Scarface. James Horner used it along with mandolins, balalaikas and snippets of Tchaikovsky in his brooding themes for Gorky Park, and even such veteran film scorers as Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin have found that a judicious use of the synthesizer expands their imaginations. Observes Jones: "We're not giving up anything by using the synthesizer, only adding to the possibilities with space-age colors...
...make a killing in African marketplaces. Recently police raided a privately owned store along Pugu Road in Dar es Salaam and found a cache of spare vehicle parts large enough to fill the cargo hold of a ship. Says former Tanzanian Police Chief Ken Flood: "Africa has always attracted con men and carpetbaggers. But they were almost always whites from Europe. Now the blacks themselves have learned the game...