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...largest city; an army captain and 80 soldiers defected to the guerrillas. Heavy fighting continued for days, as leftist troops penetrated several provincial cities before being thrown back. They seized San Francisco Gotera, the capital of eastern Morazan department, and it took government troops three days to break the cordon around the city and recapture...
...diplomats, conspicuous in their distinctive tailored overcoats, landed at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran last Friday in an atmosphere of high anxiety and tight security. Greeted by aides of Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, they were led quickly past a group of jostling reporters held back by a cordon of police and Islamic Guards, and ushered by plainclothes security men into Mercedes limousines that whisked them directly to a meeting with top Iranian officials. In a dark brown briefcase, the Algerians carried a seven-page document, a formal U.S. bargaining proposal in the hostage negotiations that was couched...
...indifferent when on its borders, be it in the south, west or east, attempts are being made to create regimes hostile to it? Wfe have had some experience-a rather grim one at that-prior to World War II when there were efforts to create a so-called sanitary cordon around the U.S.S.R. What it resulted in for the whole world has not, probably, been forgotten in the U.S.A...
...think fence-cutting is too militant. From nearby woods they have gathered limbs and rusting metal appliances, which they pile neatly in front of the gate, offerings to the god of civil disobedience. True to their part of the script, police come out from behind the gate, from a cordon, and let bulldozers push debris inside the fence, where dumptrucks haul it away. Across the street, Seabrook police--small town cops not prepared by experience or temperament for a weekend like this--try to arrest one young man for flattening the tire of a parked patrolcar. A crowd circles...
...Monday the alliance and a coalition of other anti-nuke groups plan to block the opening of the New York Stock Exchange 50 years after the Crash. The "Manhattan Project" demonstrators plan to cordon off the doors of the exchange to prevent brokers from entering the building and trading the stocks of the 66 corporations active in nuclear energy...