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According to the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Schwab and two U.S. Army engineers were on a routine 170-mile flight from San Lorenzo to Aguacate. Schwab was unable to maintain his course 25 miles inside Honduras' southern border with Nicaragua, possibly because of 30-knot winds, the embassy said. As a result, the pilot was forced to land on a rutted dirt road near the frontier. When Schwab and his passengers got out of the aircraft, they came under intense fire from Sandinista troops. The two engineers escaped unhurt...
Every day at dusk, a scruffy knot of rebels gather before the gutted cathedral in the Salvadoran town of Jucuarán. All carry automatic weapons, but little else about them bespeaks military discipline. They fidget and giggle like schoolboys, snapping to attention only at the sight of their bearded commander. "For the people of this town, you are the revolution," he warned them one evening last week. "Be polite. Ask permission before entering a house." But as soon as the leader departed for his camp deep in the nearby hills, the youths slung their M-16s over their shoulders...
...Pain of Love)-promise the band at its naughtiest and nastiest, but Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are delighting here in twisting their band's carefully cultivated bad-boy image into a tight knot. All the Way Down takes a typically randy, amoral Stones musical protagonist and sets him up against a woman who is more than just his match. Undercover is a rough-and-tumble reminder that, as Jagger sings in It Must Be Hell, "The strength of darkness still abides...
...Defense Secretary, arguing that the U.S. must struggle to overcome what he saw as the Soviets' military superiority. Yet as a pragmatic politician and the latest in a line of Ford alumni advising Reagan, he may provoke some criticism from the far right. Dealing with the Gordian knot of Middle East politics and coping with the inflammable situation in Lebanon, however, are tasks far more suited to a wrestler than an ideologue. Rumsfeld's first move will have to be an attempt to get a hammer lock on the shifting complexities of the situation in Lebanese "reconciliation talks...
...Crimson defensive letdown with just 3:52 left in the first allowed the Chiefs to knot the score and set the stage for Taylor's second half heroics...