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...meeting with President Carter. Mugabe was seeking support in the international arena at a time when his four-month-old majority-rule government has hit some embarrassing snags at home. His Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development, Edgar Tekere, awaits trial on a murder charge. His former military commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, faces possible prosecution as a result of a BBC interview critical of the government. Anxious whites, meanwhile, continue to leave the country at record rates of up to 2,000 a month in the face of sporadic lawlessness and the increasingly Marxist tone of official commentary...
...region had known even before the Spanish conquistadors first arrived in the 16th century. Nowadays, Central America is once again the land of the smoking gun. It is torn by struggle and threatened by a chain reaction of upheavals that could have far-reaching repercussions throughout the Americas. Warns Lieut. General Wallace Nutting, senior officer of the U.S. Southern Command: "All of Central America could very easily radicalize, and a very substantial wedge would be driven between north and south...
...progress. Many of these new codes are backed up by elaborate review systems that investigate each discharge of a police gun and call for disciplinary action or referral for criminal proceedings if a committee concludes that there was a violation. "Every time an officer uses a firearm," says Lieut. Thomas Flanagan of the New York police department, "he knows that a lot of people will be looking over his shoulder to see if he did right." In New York, fatal shootings by police dropped from 93 in 1971-the year before the department adopted a new deadly force policy...
...Lieut. General Thomas Tackaberry, commander of the XV111 Airborne Corps, was the first man out of the first C-141. Standing in the drop zone, he said the mass assault had a dual purpose. It tested how well the Army and Air Force could carry off such a huge troop movement (very well with a brigade, but a whole division is so much larger that there may be barely enough planes to deliver it across the sea). The exercise did something for the individual paratroopers as well. Said Tackaberry: "Psychologically, it helps a man to know he's part...
...biggest catch was Kim, who was thus eliminated from the presidential elections, which the government has pledged to hold in 1981. The field seemed clear for the military to put forward a candidate of its own, perhaps the emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan. As for the millionaire culprits, the authorities were magnanimous: the nine would "resign from all public offices" -and donate their wealth to the government's public welfare fund...