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...from the sleepy fishing village of Trujillo on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, construction workers are toiling in the sweltering tropical heat to erect dozens of elevated wooden barracks. Each of the $2,000 buildings is made to last. Those already completed make up the nucleus of the Regional Military Training Center, where 150 U.S. advisers have instructed 6,000 Honduran and Salvadoran recruits over the past 13 months. Near by, workers have constructed sandbagged guard positions and bunkers large enough to shelter every serviceman in case of attack. "These soldiers are facing a tough enemy," says an American trainer...
Legislation to erect barriers between teen-age drivers and alcohol, of course, will never provide more than a partial solution to the national problem of youth-caused road carnage. Admits Bob Anastas, executive director of Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD): "I just know that no matter what you do, you're still going to have kids drinking and driving." That grim fact is no excuse for not trying. But it provides a cautionary note against viewing the current proposal as a panacea, any more than was the Noble Experiment: Prohibition. -By William R. Doemer. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett...
...smokers, a CCA-supported move. Even more distressing to his comrades on the right was Russell's approval of two "liberal" commissions. One is currently investigating the policy of linkage, which would force commercial developers to build a certain amount of housing for each office complex they erect. The second committee will keep an eye on the actions of the Cambridge police, who faced several allegations of racial discrimination this spring. Both votes betray the traditional conservative support of business and the autonomy of city institutions...
...million that the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee proposes to spend on security, Congress has authorized the Defense Department to add $50 million. The Pentagon will lend more than 100 helicopters and crews to local police forces to keep watch over the Games, and the L.A.O.O.C. will erect fences and sentry posts around the Olympic Villages where athletes will live. For further security Soviet Olympic officials and coaches would have slept on a ship anchored off Long Beach. The first major assignment of the Pentagon's newly organized hostage rescue team, now training at Quantico, Va., will be to station...
...take up careers. Alexandra Spofford makes clay figurines, Jane Smart plays the cello, and Sukie Rougemont writes a gossip column for the local paper. These friends meet almost every Thursday, as a coven of genuine, practicing witches: "In the right mood and into their third drinks they could erect a cone of power above them like a tent to the zenith...