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...next day, the guerrillas returned with a vengeance. Some 500 members of the People's Revolutionary Army, a branch of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), descended on Berlin. Raking the town with automatic-weapons fire and rocket-propelled grenades, they devastated the puny garrison, killing or wounding four policemen and capturing or driving away the rest. The guerrillas sacked and burned Berlin's pharmacies and dry-goods stores, robbed the only local bank of $160,000, and rocketed the town's postal and telex offices. Local residents were herded into the central municipal...
...failures annoyed Moscow. The Politburo accepted a less quiet way of getting rid of Amin. This time special Soviet troops were to storm the presidential palace. The day after Christmas 1979, Soviet paratroopers began arriving at the Kabul airport. They strengthened the substantial garrison we had quietly been building up there. The next day an armored column moved out of the airport toward the palace. It consisted of a few hundred Soviet commandos, plus a specially trained assault group of KGB officers-rather like the U.S. Green Berets. They were all in Afghan uniforms, and their vehicles had Afghan markings...
...French and Italian peace-keeping force in Lebanon would probably have to be expanded up to 30,000 in order to ensure stability in the country until the Lebanese army can be strengthened. Although U.S. officials do not like the idea of expanding the American garrison, which remains vulnerable to unexpected hostile action, the Administration is coming around to the view that it may have no choice. Said a White House official: "We are being drawn into this willy-nilly...
...islands' 1,800 "kelpers" are trying to return to the quiet life they enjoyed before Argentina's invasion. But not everything is as it was, largely because the 40-man force that had previously defended the islands has been replaced by a 3,000-man British garrison. On their time off, the soldiers have little to do but socialize and spend money in the small local shops, buying up Port Stanley's supply of postcards and objects carrying the Falklands' motto, "Desire the Right." One storeowner has already sold out a supply of watches and jewelry...
...There was a stop-off point when the music of the '60s came in and was unrelated. The Beatles came in. And in 1962 the D.A., Jim Garrison, padlocked a lot of clubs. Maybe 500 to 1,000 musicians were instantly put out of a means of a living...