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...country's authorities report that they are now catching more traffickers. Nevertheless, as usual in the heroin business, more arrests also mean that pushers have to cut prices and redouble their efforts to find buyers, which in turn increases the number of Asian drug addicts. -By Lloyd Garrison. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi and James Willwerth/ Bangkok
Last week Alfonsin had some proposals of his own, most of them unacceptable to the British. Among them: an end to Britain's 150-mile exclusion zone around the islands, replacement of the Falklands garrison of some 4,300 British troops and workers by a U.N. force, and a halt to construction of a $319 million civilian-military Falklands airport. Neither side was budging on the bedrock issue: Argentina's claim to the Falklands and Britain's firm position that the islands have belonged to Britain without interruption since 1833, and that at the very least...
...sirens, wheezing factory whistles and rolling gunfire in a mournful cacophony. When the noisy tribute had ended, an eerie silence hung for five minutes over Red Square?and the nation. Then Chernenko and his eleven comrades on the Politburo regrouped on the mausoleum to review troops from the Moscow garrison, parading briskly past them to the strains of a stirring march. The Andropov era, brief as it was, had ended...
...could provide an opportunity to redeploy the Marines to safer ground. Two of America's partners in the Multi-National Force also were increasingly restive about being pinned down in Beirut. France announced that in late January it would transfer one-fourth of its 1,750-man garrison to rejoin the United Nations Force in southern Lebanon. Italy plans to cut its contingent from 2,200 to 1,100 in the near future. Britain alone has promised not to reduce its presence, but its troops number only...
...last days of 1983, rebels raided the hilltop.headquarters of the 4th Infantry Brigade near El Paraiso, 30 miles northeast of San Salvador. The attack proved a serious blow both to the army and to army morale. After learning that 700 of the 1,300 troops based in the garrison were away on illegally authorized holiday leaves and 200 other soldiers were absent on patrol, the guerrillas struck. In the early hours of the morning, they set off a mortar barrage, scoring direct hits on barracks where government soldiers were sleeping. Some army troops scattered in panic. Within eight hours...