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...teams of guerrillas come from the base of the volcano, slipping through the army lines in the darkness to attack small outposts. They dress themselves up in army uniforms to greet a returning patrol or a lone watchman. Earlier they killed two guards near the gate of the hospital that is also used as a temporary barracks in Suchitoto, a once prosperous town five miles from the foot of the volcano...
...Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...Kremlinologists scrutinized the lineup of Politburo members waiting to greet Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski, they noticed a subtle, but possibly important, change. Konstantin Chernenko, 70, a burly, longtime crony of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's, occupied the No. 3 position in the receiving line. Only Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, whose presence was required by protocol, stood closer to the ailing Soviet leader. The white-maned Chernenko's commanding position set off speculation that he had won a round or two in the behind-the-scenes struggle to succeed the 75-year-old Brezhnev. At the same time...
...giddy white heat by Robin Williams ("What excitement backstage-everyone's standing around in little pools of Perrier"), a dingbat piano solo by Dudley Moore, and film clips of such stars as James Cagney, James Stewart and Bette Davis, who then showed up at center stage to greet one another and an S.R.O. audience of 6,000 who had paid from $25 to $1,000 for the privilege of waving back...
...Syria and Israel, whose mutual suspicion and hatred seemed indelible. Not that Syria was overflowing with good feeling for the U.S. either. Kissinger tells how, as his plane was coming in for a landing during the Syrian shuttle, a U.S. diplomat on hand to greet him turned to Syria's waspish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and said: "I think the airplane is God's punishment to mankind." "No," replied Khaddam without changing expression, "America...