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Moving about many areas of the countryside with relative freedom, the guerrillas interdict roads and harass army supply and communications links. Bands of insurgents occupy villages and occasionally even a sizable town for a few days at a time. When superior government forces arrive, the guerrillas fade away. When the army units move on, the guerrillas are apt to return shortly thereafter. In Chalatenango department, such hit-and-run tactics have forced army troops to stay close to their barracks. In Morazan department, the insurgents control most of the countryside. Last week TIME Correspondent James Willwerth traveled to Morazan...
...sure, those sweeping expectatations could fade as committees in both houses tackle the nitty-gritty details. In the past, intense lobbying by special interests has nibbled away at any cohesive economic planning. Beyond that, there is some question as to whether the President had won on the budget largely through his own effective lobbying and prestige, or whether the Democrats, particularly House Speaker Tip O'Neill, had fumbled away all chances for a much closer vote. Indeed, while the margin of victory was psychologically and politically devastating for the Democrats, it was partly illusory. If the last-minute head...
Generalizing about M.B.A.s is ultimately a little like generalizing about Bulgarians or trumpeters. In many cases, the differences between them and everyone else (including the salary differential) tend to fade, like the colors of a chameleon, after a few years in the corporate world. Others, however, seem permanently tinted, chameleons that have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays...
...ends, the autobiographers fade back towards anonymous sanity, Sir Quentin dies, and Fleur's novel attracts enormous acclain. Fleur admits that she lingered to watch the characters wind down, to invite their antagonism, and to risk further danger of libeling them all. "They were morally outside myself, they were objectified. I would write about them one day. In fact, under one form or another, whether I have liked it or not, I have written about them ever since...
...many in Nader's long-time battle for consumer rights, has a distinct military flavor. The man whose Washington aides call themselves "Nader's Raiders" is a battle-searred veteran of countless corporate skirmishes. An old soldier, certainly, but, to the chagrin of corporate America, one not likely to fade away for a long time...