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...news from other battlefronts has been no better. The Salvadoran armed forces, led by Defense Minister José GuillermoGarcia, have shown neither resolve nor proficiency. Ignoring U.S. advice, the Salvadoran military has wasted its energy in useless sweeps of remote hinterland areas, while the guerrillas have scored easy but psychologically important victories by briefly occupying towns in the country's economic heartland. A guerrilla campaign of economic devastation continues practically undeterred; last week much of the country was plunged once again into temporary darkness after guerrilla forces blew up a series of electrical power lines...
...Butterfield's book is an enormous scroll, a teeming, informative landscape of scurrying figures. Bernstein paints with a more expressive, delicate brush. His art is philosophical and impressionistic, elegant and in some ways more moving. Where Butterfield deals mostly with urban China, Bernstein attempts to plumb the interior hinterland, the very heart of China. Together, these complementary volumes reveal the China of dust and sweat-the China of experience rather than imagination. They create a portrait of a society caught between two worlds one dead and the other powerless to be born...
Barely a mile from Yamit, at the cooperative farm of Moshav Sadot, the Sinai's sandy hinterland has been transformed into a verdant cornucopia. Tomato, eggplant and pepper plants, mango and lichee nut trees are nourished in long rows by painstaking drip irrigation. Collective farmers like those of Moshav Sadot are demanding at least half of the estimated $2.2 billion-or 13% of the 1981 national budget-that Israel has set aside as compensation for the Sinai settlers. But even that will not console all of them. Says Ella Weizman, 31, who sits tensely with her husband Vito...
Huff expects to spend up to $500,000, much of it from out of state; Udall is budgeting some $475,000. Udall's chief hope is that he can offset his losses in the Tucson area by reminding voters in the district's arid hinterland of how he has helped shape legislation affecting their water supplies, including pushing a $100 million appropriation through Congress last year for the huge Central Arizona Project, which would bring Colorado River water to the Phoenix and Tucson areas...
...Christians, mainly Arabic-speaking Maronites, who make up about 42% of Lebanon's 3 million population, control the eastern sector of Beirut and some 400 miles of northern hinterland. The Christians in Beirut are themselves divided, along feudal family lines, into two main warring factions-the strongly rightist Phalange, headed by 75-year-old Pierre Gemayel, and the slightly more moderate National Liberal Party of former President Camille Chamoun...