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...building and a dormitory for supply and transport squadrons. At 7:25 a.m., as hundreds of G.I.s and German civilian employees were reporting for the morning shift, a quantity of explosives concealed in the car detonated, with such force that a 5-ft.-deep crater was left in the ground. Ceiling tiles on nearby buildings were peeled off, windows 450 ft. away were shattered, and 34 cars were damaged or destroyed. Captain George Silla was sitting in his office when he saw a bright yellow flash followed by an explosion. "I ducked under my desk," he said. "When...
...country. Chongqing has plants that produce trucks, buses, machine tools, chemicals, textiles and munitions. It has ample supplies of high-grade coal, natural gas and iron ore, as well as rich red earth, which provides an abundance of vegetables and grain. Thus it is an ideal testing ground for the plans of Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, a Sichuan native son, who wants to streamline China's bureaucracy, increase economic incentives and put a new face on Chinese socialism...
...remote burial ground of Garhi Khuda Baksh, 200 miles northeast of Karachi, hundreds of Pakistanis gathered to pay their respects to Shahnawaz Bhutto, 27, son of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the French Riviera last month. Thousands of others were trying to reach the area in the expectation that the funeral would be held this week. But Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq was taking no chances that the outpouring of sympathy for the Bhutto family would turn into a huge and possibly unmanageable political demonstration. Zia conveyed...
...bishops' main concern is that both sides in the conflict now view peace talks as no more than a tactical tool to further their military aims. The Salvadoran army has been gaining ground in the countryside against the Marxist-led FMLN. For their part, the guerrillas have warned that they intend to bring the war back to the streets of San Salvador, the capital. CUBA Castro's Fugitive Guest...
Castro claimed to know nothing of Vesco's finances or movements. He charged that the CIA had spread the story about Vesco's hideout, declaring that "they may want to gouge out his eyes, strangle him, make him into ground meat." The Cuban President was especially piqued because the renewed interest in Vesco stole attention from Castro's call for Latin American countries to repudiate their collective foreign debt, which totals some $360 billion. BOLIVIA Sour Smell of Success...