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...militias are from the people. The pueblo is ready for defense." In secondary schools, liberal disciplines in the Nicaraguan social sciences and humanities have been downgraded or replaced by courses on revolutionary history and Marxist economics and sociology. Even a natural science class at one of Managua's largest public schools includes a lesson on the alleged exploitation of the Third World by multinational corporations...
With at least five camps in Honduras and an army of about 6,000, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) is the largest contra faction and the biggest recipient of the funds the CIA has earmarked for the war. F.D.N. leaders say that the overwhelming majority of their followers are peasants who have become disillusioned by the Sandinista revolution and that only 3% are former members of Somoza's National Guard. But the presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only...
Contrary to the public image of dinosaurs as the Edsels of evolution, says Colbert, they were extraordinarily well-adapted creatures. They inhabited every corner of the world and ranged in bulk from the chicken-size Compsognathus to the 100-ton Brachiosaurus, the largest creature ever to trod the earth. Though they plodded through swamps and shallow coastal waters, they were essentially land bound. Some ambled on all fours; others scampered after prey on their lower limbs. Some may have lived a century or more...
...chaos stemmed largely from labor strife at Continental and Eastern, two of the largest and most financially troubled airlines. Continental (1982 revenues: $1.4 billion), which lost $84 million in the first half of 1983, was struck by its pilots and flight attendants on Oct. 1 after it had first filed for protection from creditors under bankruptcy laws and then ordered its workers to take pay cuts that in some cases exceeded 50%. At Eastern (1982 revenues: $3.76 billion), where losses reached $128.9 million during the three quarters that ended last month, Chairman Frank Borman gave employees an ultimatum: accept wage...
...recovered from war. We are a friendly, outgoing world citizen.' The Canadians were saying, 'We are not the stepchild of the United States. We are strong and wonderful.' Certainly the Soviets said time and time again that the Olympics was the best example of acceptance of the world's largest socialist state. The second purpose has been as simply a sporting event for athletes of all nations. But that's our only purpose. We are not a nation and we have no statement to make. We are celebrating sport...