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Last week, Mengistu made some promising moves. He ordered increased daily processing of supplies at Assab, Ethiopia's largest port, where 100,000 tons of grain have been stockpiled and are going to waste. He also announced that 70% of the country's commercial trucks would be made available for shuttling relief goods from Assab to the parched heartlands...
...nostalgic showpieces were more than balanced by ranks of modern battle gear and the precision drill of troops from all branches of the Soviet forces. The 45-minute spectacle was the largest display of military might in the Soviet capital since a similar anniversary in 1965, and included military equipment never seen before in a Moscow parade: squat T-64 tanks, short-range (75 miles) SS-21 missiles and M1976 field guns. Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the Defense Minister, gave the keynote speech. "Capitalist propaganda is making strenuous efforts to falsify history . . . to belittle the role of the U.S.S.R...
...terrorist strikes raised the possibility of another sectarian bloodletting between Sikhs and Hindus, the largest of India's religious groups. An estimated 2,000 Sikhs were killed in massacres following Indira Gandhi's murder. As Sikhs in New Delhi and elsewhere huddled in their homes, fearful of another murderous backlash, security forces sealed highways into and out of the city and subjected plane, train and bus passengers to careful searches. Police swept through ten Sikh temples in New Delhi, hunting for suspects. Some 200 Sikhs were detained in New Delhi; 600 more were arrested in sweeps in Haryana and Punjab...
...largest of the studies, conducted in the Netherlands, found a direct link between the amount of fish in the diet and the rate of death from heart disease. Investigators monitored the eating habits of 852 middle-aged Dutchmen for 20 years and found that the incidence of fatal heart disease was more than 50% lower among men who regularly ate fish than those who ate no fish at all--despite the fact that the fish eaters consumed somewhat more cholesterol and more meat than non-fish eaters...
MARRIED. Frank Perdue, 65, beaky-nosed prince of chickens as the TV pitchman for his own poultry firm, now the nation's fifth largest; and Kathleen M. Markey, 37, investment banker; he for the second time, she for the first; in New York City...