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...with TIME, Alejandro Montenegro, 28, a former member of the Salvadoran rebel faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, declared that starting in 1980, Salvadoran guerrillas "were sent to Managua for training." Communications between the rebels and their leaders are also funneled through the Nicaraguan capital, via hand-held Japanese two-way radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments as they came in, and they had the responsibility for transporting them to us." The source of the clandestine arms shipments...
...will show you fear in a handful of dust," wrote T.S. Eliot. The towering set that vaults above and plummets below the stage of Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater shows us fear on the inscrutable face of a perpendicular wall of stone and ice, pockmarked by eons. The hand-held camera that scales Designer Ming Cho Lee's awesome set is the playgoer's eye, restored to a 20/20 vision of the power, mystery, majesty and menace of undomesticated nature...
...from objects on a screen without using a keyboard. In December 1979, Jobs and a group of Apple engineers visited Palo Alto for a demonstration of the Smalltalk system. They watched the electric rodent point at commands while a Xerox researcher, Larry Tesler, made the case for the hand-held device. Recalls Bruce Daniels, a Lisa designer who saw the presentation: "We loved it, what they were trying to put across in terms of ease of use. We all said: 'That's it. That's what we want to build.' " Six months later, Tesler joined Apple...
...doubt wondering why my voice seems so tinny and my head is smaller than a peanut. That is because you have tuned in on the new Sony Watchman, the slender, hand-held TV set no larger than a walkie-talkie. Even at $349.95, Watchman was one of the hottest (and hardest to find) novelties in the stores this holiday season. Those mini-masters at Sony who shrank stereo music three years ago into the oft-imitated Walkman have scored again with this 19-oz. marvel and its 2-in. screen...
...opera breaks while at school or work, or take it along on car trips. Predicts Warren Zorek, the manager of the consumer electronics department at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan: A color version should be on the way before too long, and it isn't farfetched to foresee hand-held video-game attachments and personal computer compatibility...