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Last week about 350 American and German veterans and former Belgian resistance fighters gathered at the site to mark the 40th anniversary of an action that may have shortened the war by disrupting Hitler's defenses. Said retired Lieut. Colonel Leonard Engeman, 78, who led the U.S. forces that captured the bridge: "We have not come back to gloat, but to commemorate a moment that was rather special, and to make clear that never again must we ever go to war against one another...
...Lieut. Colonel Ricardo Aristides Cienfuegos, 40, chief spokesman for the Salvadoran armed forces, evidently felt he had nothing to fear at the exclusive International Sports Club in San Salvador. The officer, who had wanted to leave his desk job for a field assignment in the five-year-old civil war against leftist guerrillas, was relaxing last week beside a tennis court when three men in tennis clothes approached. One pulled out a pistol and shot Cienfuegos in the head, killing him instantly. Before fleeing, the killers draped their victim's body with the red-and-yellow flag of the Popular...
Cienfuegos was the highest-ranking Salvadoran officer to be gunned down in the capital since the guerrilla conflict began. Almost two years ago, members of the F.P.L. took responsibility for the murder of U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger, an attache at the U.S. embassy. Informed of the Cienfuegos killing, President Jose Napoleon Duarte denounced the crime as part of a leftist policy of "urban destabilization...
...former employer, the New York Times, welcomed him back as national security correspondent. His stint in Government, after all, had only enhanced his sources. Last week, however, Gelb was declared persona non grata at a key stop on his beat: the Bureau of Politico- Military Affairs. The director, Lieut. General John Chain Jr., who has been cooperative with journalists, ordered his staff not to speak to Gelb again. The reason was a report by Gelb in the Feb. 13 edition of the Times that described U.S. contingency plans for placing nuclear weapons in foreign countries and Puerto Rico. Before...
...different technologies eventually would probably be used in combination. But, of course, the systems will develop at different speeds, assuming all or any prove feasible. Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, who heads the Pentagon Strategic Defense Initiative Office, foresees a three-stage development: initial deployment of a "robust" defense, presumably relying mainly on kinetic-energy devices, to be started only if and when R. and D. indicates that a second and then a third generation of more sophisticated weapons will follow in not too many years...