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...From the highway, the people point to the hills where the guerrillas have their hiding places. At dawn one day earlier this month, some 200 guerrillas occupied the village of San Esteban Catarina, in San Vicente, about 25 miles from the capital. When I arrived there, prayers were being offered in the church for the return of 70 youths-between 13 and 21 years of age-who were carried off by the guerrillas. The local priest, Father René Valle, and several mothers tried to stop the guerrillas from taking the boys. "Before, they had many supporters here, and they...
Most of the countryside's beauties are less than an hour from the capital, and reachable by a coastal highway which stretches 35 miles. Many golf and beach clubs remain open despite a drop in tourism because...
...Pakistan, however, President Zia's measures have hardly disturbed the more than 400 drug dens still operating all along the highway from Peshawar to Karachi. An addict there can order a fix almost as easily as a meal in a restaurant. The nation's heroin trade is further bolstered by Afghan refugees, who peddle the drug to help pay for the rebellion against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. Western intelligence sources say that the Kabul regime, with Soviet connivance, is also injecting Pakistan with heroin in a deliberate attempt to destabilize Pakistani society. Officials in Karachi have...
...growing pattern of dependency. The list could go on Leave aside the obvious questions of whether the American public ever had the patience to give some of these policies a real chance or whether they were funded to the extent required or whether other Federal programs such as highway construction and tax benefits for homeowners undercut their effectiveness. The truth is that none worked the magic its advocates had predicted. In some cases (urban renewal, for example) more harm than good may have been achieved. In others management proved a real problem. In still others, well-publicized abuses particularly...
Despite their appalling losses, the Iranians continued to hammer away at the strategically important highway that links Basra, Iraq's second largest city and a key center of the country's oil industry, to Baghdad, the capital. With 300,000 to 400,000 more soldiers massed along a ragged 370-mile section of the border, Iran appeared in no mood to give...