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...terrorists lost one in Bangkok, they won in another hijack drama in Managua, Nicaragua. A Honduran Sahsa Airlines Boeing 737 was commandeered at gunpoint by five hijackers demanding the release of 15 leftists imprisoned in Honduras. In a complicated deal, the Honduran government agreed to free the prisoners if the plane's 50 passengers and six crew members were released into the custody of Panamanian authorities, acting as intermediaries. The plane was flown to Panama, where the passengers were released, and three days later a Panamanian Air Force jet was dispatched to Honduras to pick up ten leftist prisoners...
...busing, the Equal Rights Amendment, sex education in public schools, the ban on public school prayers, tough gun laws and foreign aid to leftist regimes. The main matchmaker of this coalition, New Right Strategist Paul Weyrich, explains in his precise, self-assured manner that abortion became a potent right-wing issue because liberals forsook the "opportunity"-which assumes they even would have wanted it. Says Weyrich: "Ted Kennedy, who is supposed to be a Catholic, could have got out in front on this, and he would have had people in his hip pocket. Now some of the hard-core Right...
...some assessments, last week's launch was a pivotal event in British politics, if only because of the S.D.P.'s surprising early strength. Since breaking openly with the increasingly leftist Labor Party in January, the new left-of-center grouping has recruited 13 Labor Members of Parliament, 21 Labor peers, and even one dissident Tory backbencher...
...expected victory in national elections later this month. The Administration has asked Congress to repeal the 1976 Clark amendment, which bars covert U.S. aid to rebel guerrillas in Angola. For its part, South Africa may have used the tough new U.S. stance against terrorism to accelerate a war against leftist guerrillas in Namibia, which South Africa has administered since...
...leftist guerrilla group took credit for the embassy strike. "Operation Oscar Arnulfo Romero," it announced, had been mounted to honor the memory of the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated a year ago by a presumed right-wing terrorist. The embassy assault followed a 24-hour truce, also called by the guerrillas to commemorate the prelate's death. The cease-fire was generally observed by government forces, but not by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. The morning after the truce, the bodies of 38 victims were found in and around the capital...