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...Damascus so far has refrained from moving its units into the territory abandoned by Israel. Said Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he watched the pullback: "I hope the Syrians understand we have certain limits, and we will not be able to stay on the sidelines if they exceed them." Earlier in the week the Israeli Cabinet had voted to complete the three-stage withdrawal from Lebanon by early June, but the Israelis were also setting up observation posts and positions just north of the border...
...reason for this view is that the Sandinistas have not hesitated to intimidate their neighbors. Washington sometimes inflates the menace posed by Nicaragua's Soviet-aided military buildup; Reagan was simply wrong when he declared in 1983 that Managua's armed forces exceed those of all other Central American countries combined. But, counting full-time soldiers and militia on active duty, the Nicaraguan army of 62,000 is by far the largest of any single country in the area. Nicaragua has 150 tanks; Guatemala has ten and the other Central American nations none at all. Though the Sandinistas are deficient...
...fury of a victim can exceed his skill at handling a weapon defensively. A Kansas City couple, Thomas Hill, 76, and his wife Lillian, 72, were surprised by an intruder in their home. Thomas picked up a pistol off a table and fired. The intruder grabbed the gun. Thomas pulled a second pistol out of his pocket and tried six shots. The robber seized that gun too. Lillian emerged from the kitchen and squeezed off three more shots. Not one bullet hit the invader, who escaped with all three guns. As he fled, he avoided three more rifle shots from...
...rarely criticize is the way it performs. Though still an experimental weapon (its full name is Missile Experimental), in seven operational tests the MX has given every indication that it can ably carry out its assigned function: conveying up to ten nuclear warheads to separate targets over ranges that exceed 8,000 miles. The missile, which is 71 ft. long, 92 in. in diameter and weighs 190,000 lbs. at launch, fires through four stages. In the final phase, a 4-ft.-long "bus," steered by an on-board guidance system and small propulsion jets, maneuvers to release the warheads...
...Reagan Administration's budget proposal sets a $4000 cap on aid to individual students, eliminates guaranteed student, eliminates student loans for students whose family incomes exceed $32.500, and prohibits Pell Grants and other forms of aid to students whose family incomes exceed...