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...Panama from a one-day battle exercise in Honduras, foreshadowing much larger displays of American strength that are soon to begin along Nicaragua's northern border. As part of a coordinated offensive, some 6,000 CIA-backed contras were marching from their Honduran base camps into the Nicaraguan interior. Simultaneously a 200-man contra column moved from the south to occupy a strategic hamlet on Nicaragua's isolated Caribbean coast and gain a new military and political advantage after the most intense and sustained fighting of their hit-and-run guerrilla war. In addition, members of the southern...
...F.D.N. operation is obvious. The contras maintain more than a dozen base camps in Honduras; five of them are in a border salient close to the spot where a U.S. military helicopter was shot down last January by Nicaraguan border guards. Helicopter flights link the F.D.N. camps with the interior of Honduras and, according to some of the contra leadership, with rebel task forces inside Nicaragua. (An unmarked helicopter also removed A.R.D.E. casualties from the battle at San Juan del Norte.) The F.D.N. has no helicopters; the apparent conclusion is that the aircraft are supplied by the Honduran government...
Like former Interior Secretary James Watt, his friend and onetime boss, Arnett can seldom resist a wisecrack. Nor is the strapping (6 ft. 5 in.), gregarious Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks shy about his enthusiasm for life in the outdoors. As he showed a visitor around his office, he sported a tie decorated with kangaroos and held in place by an elephant clasp. His 260-lb. frame was partially cloaked by a casual cardigan sweater adorned with a pin that said DUCKS. Says Arnett: "I like the camaraderie of hunting. I like sleeping...
...answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back on his department's research into the matter. He has even withdrawn an Interior Department film showing the effectiveness of steel shot. Ironically, one recent victim of lead poisoning was a whooping crane, a member of a highly endangered species (only about 100 whoopers are left) that the Interior Department has been trying to save, at a cost of more than $500,000 a year...
...December 1981, and became a member of the Postal Service board of governors on July 31, 1981; Thomas Barrack, who spent $70,000 of his own money to help Meese find a buyer for his California house in the summer of 1982 and became Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December 1982; Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, and Edwin Gray, a former senior vice president of the bank, which permitted Meese to fall 15 months behind on mortgage loans of more than $400,000. Luce became alternate U.S. delegate to the United...