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...insistent U.S. pressure for action is producing progress. Most encouraging is a campaign known as Operation Goodwill, a U.S.-directed attempt by the Salvadoran military to regain the offensive. Launched in June, the drive is largely aimed at the departments of San Vicente and Usulután, the agricultural heartland of El Salvador. All together, 74 infantry companies (about 7,400 men) have been involved, spearheaded by two of the country's three "fast reaction" battalions, which were trained in the U.S. last year in counterinsurgency techniques. The campaign appears to be succeeding. Asserts Salvadoran Colonel Reinaldo Golcher...
...Osborne puts it, "The whole planet earth is traveling." Ten times as many Germans as Americans visit Italy each year; as many vacationers on the Continent come from tight little Britain as from the entire U.S. By contrast with the early days of jet travel, when tourists from the heartland came dressed in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts or polyester pants, and asked stridently for their bills in "real money," most Americans today are well attuned to European sensibilities. A customer-service official at a Stockholm Nordiska Kompaniet department store says mildly: "We no longer see so many 85-year...
...appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also has a reputation for booze (vodka martinis, shaken not stirred), fast women and a quick trigger-not precisely dear-to-the-heartland pulpit pleasers. White House embarrassment did not develop, however, until a Washington, B.C., TV station, which had picked up the program, began using the President's words for 30-second promo spots. The program went on as scheduled, but before it did, the station pulled the plugs, effectively canceling...
...leaders have tried to win over the workers of Katowice with material benefits, but the city's residents have remained firmly loyal to the church and, more recently, to Solidarity. Thus it was no surprise that John Paul waited until he had gone to Poland's industrial heartland to deliver his strongest sermon on the rights of workers. Standing under the Madonna of Piekary, an image of the Virgin Mary much revered by the region's coal miners, John Paul told his predominantly proletarian audience that work is "at the heart of all social life...
...fostered it. Americans were no longer so eager to embrace those formalized visions of Midwestern fecundity, the pre-industrial Eden. They were less threatened and so needed less solace. By 1950, the remaining audience for Wood had split into two groups: a small band of loyalists in the American heartland, who continued to venerate his work as distilled American truth, and everyone else, who considered him to be less than a footnote in the history of modern art, a provincial cornball...