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...plane was on a simulated bombing run at the Air Force's training range near La Junta, Colo., when the pilot reported that a "bird ingestion" had caused fires in two of the craft's engines. The plane immediately climbed to 15,500 ft., presumably to give the crew time to jump, before crashing. The pilot's final, terse transmission: "We're going down." Three of the six crewmen were able to parachute to safety...
Chamorro has long since taken her measure of the Sandinistas. For eight months after the 1979 overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, she sat on the ruling junta with Ortega before resigning in anger over the new government's leftward march. Still, Chamorro has not lost her sense of humor. When Ortega visited her house, he asked why pictures of her husband with leaders of the revolution had disappeared. "I told him that, frankly, looking at you ((Sandinistas)) gave me a headache," she said. If all goes according to plan, the first edition of the reborn La Prensa will appear...
...Crimson also added 12 swimmers and a diver: Kyo Bannai of Menlow Park, Calif.; Lea Borkehagen (diver) of London; Lisa Bowman of Mission Viejo, Calif.; Fiona Fox of Charlotte, N.C.; Jill Hutchinson of Madison, Wisc.; Sandy Junta of Summerset, N.J.; Anne Koerckel of Andover; Anne Hardy of Wallingford, Conn.; Nicole Engh of Alameda, Calif.; Heather McCann of Sunveil, Calif.; Maisha Moses of Cambridge; Valarie Mellen of Sea Cliff, N.Y.; Mary Ruppe of Mishawa, Ind.; and Julie Hopkins of Palo Alto, Calif...
...rebels struck back with some rhetoric of their own. In a one-page statement released to journalists shortly after Aquino's speech, they proclaimed the existence of their junta, presumably based in Luzon, the country's largest island. The mutineers accused Aquino of "treason" and proceeded to enumerate her government's failings: showing leniency toward Communists, declaring war against its own armed forces, allowing corruption to flourish, keeping antimilitary leftists in the Cabinet and being generally inept. In reply, Presidential Spokesman Teodoro Benigno scoffed that the junta did not control "even one square inch" of territory...
Indeed, the rebels lacked so much as a whiff of support from the Roman Catholic Church and the business community, without which no junta could hope to undermine Aquino's immense popularity. But while the charges against the government were an obvious smokescreen for Honasan's ambitions, they served again to remind many Filipinos of Aquino's shortcomings. The rebels, admits Haydee Yorac, a member of Aquino's commission on elections, "are riding on legitimate issues that should be addressed...