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...average of $24,478 a year on each Army enlisted man and $52,857 on each officer. Since the Guard and the Army Reserve are basically made up of part-time soldiers paid by the Pentagon on a daily basis, their availability is a bargain. On the average, guardsmen spend 46 days a year on active duty; that includes one weekend each month plus a two-week outing. While the Army cannot grow beyond the 781,000 officers and men authorized by Congress, the National Guard now has 440,000 and the Reserve 242,000. Those two forces may soon...
This year alone, the separatist Basque terrorist organization ETA has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed 25 people, including ten Civil Guardsmen who died in a car bombing two weeks ago in Madrid. Last week ETA, the Spanish acronym for "Basque Homeland and Liberty," sent its latest message of brazen defiance: half a dozen antitank rocket grenades, fired from a parked car, hit the Defense Ministry in the Spanish capital, injuring nine people. On Saturday, two Guardsmen were killed in suspected ETA attacks near the northern city of San Sebastian...
Rosales denied accusations that most contra leaders served as national guardsmen under Nicaragua's former dictator Anastasio Somoza, whom the Sandinistas overthrew, although critics of the contras charge otherwise...
...similar fixation has led Reagan to embrace the Contras, a fledgling troup of former Somocista national guardsmen. Much as Wilson hung around with bad company because of his personal grudge with the Huertistas--at one point he even supported Pancho Villa--so Reagan's disgust with the Sandinistas has fogged his presumed better judgment and led to his cozy embrace of a contra-band of ex-Somoza thugs...
...destroy their already edgy relations. The two countries agreed to form a joint patrol of their 225-mile frontier to prevent clashes between Sandinista forces and U.S.-backed contras based in Costa Rica. The arrangement is designed to avoid incidents like the shooting deaths of two Costa Rican guardsmen last May, which resulted in abruptly severed diplomatic relations. Reason: San Jose blamed the violence on Sandinista troops, while Managua blamed the contras...