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...Sandinistas struggle to preserve their revolution, U.S.-backed contras continue to harass the regime from across Nicaragua's northern and southern borders. The largest of the counterrevolutionary groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), based in Honduras, claims 8,000 troops. Although able to move freely over thousands of square miles of northern Nicaragua, the contras are worried that their operations will be restricted if U.S. aid is cut off. Correspondent Ricardo Chavira and Photographer Bob Nickelsberg accompanied an F.D.N. patrol on a six-day foray that took them some 30 miles into the desolate hills of Nicaragua...
Armand Hammer seems to go on forever. Last week he formally teamed up with a people who have gone on forever, the Chinese. The 85-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum signed an agreement with the People's Republic for the largest Sino-U.S. deal yet: a $580 million venture to mine coal from a huge pit at Antaibao, 310 miles west of Peking...
...million to the operation, chiefly in the form of equipment and engineering talent. China will put up another $240 million. The 30-year agreement calls for the Chinese eventually to take over management. Antaibao's 1.4 billion tons of proven reserves could make it the world's largest open-pit mine after production starts in 1987. Its high-grade coal will be sold to Pacific-basin countries, but low-quality coal will go to the domestic market...
...been regulated tightly enough at the state level. They contend that itemized funeral price lists, which are required in some states, are already common throughout the U.S. Says David Bohardt, executive director of the National Funeral Directors Association: "What the Government has done is taken the world's largest sledgehammer to kill the smallest ant on record...
...popularity of CompuSex. This is a new form of erotic entertainment in which consenting computer owners exchange X-rated messages over the telephone lines. Anyone with a home computer can play, but the most active enthusiasts are found among the 110,000 subscribers of CompuServe, the country's largest computer network. "Eighteen months ago, it was mostly lighthearted flirting," says Dave Payton, a CompuServe regular from West Virginia. "Now people come out with all sorts of obscene propositions right on-line...