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...night bakery he claimed to be a Canadian of Lebanese origin who needed a doctor for his sick daughter. To have told the bakery patrons the truth, he feared, would have frightened them and perhaps even led to his recapture. But a passing motorist quickly gave him a lift to the Summerland, two miles away. The Syrians then took him to Damascus, and a day later he was home in London with his wife and five children...
...carrier. Moreover, 255's demise may have had less to do with unfriendly skies than with the eternal variable of human fallibility. Preliminary reports suggested that the pilot may have failed to take a routine, essential step: extend the wing flaps and slats that provide the jet with extra lift for takeoff...
Arias is already pushing Ortega in that direction. He publicly called on the Nicaraguan leader to lift the five-year-old state of emergency and restore civil liberties by the Nov. 7 deadline. But Ortega made no promises, saying the reopening of the opposition newspaper La Prensa, which was closed by the government more than a year ago, and the Roman Catholic radio station Radio Catolico, is "an option of ours...
...plan calls for the Sandinistas and the contras to agree on an immediate cease-fire. The U.S. would then suspend all military aid to the rebels ("humanitarian" help would continue), and Nicaragua would end its imports of military supplies from the Soviet Union. Nicaragua would be obliged to lift its state of emergency, restore basic civil rights, and establish an independent electoral commission that would plan for open elections. In addition, all foreign military personnel would be withdrawn from Central America and U.S. maneuvers in Honduras suspended...
During his two days of testimony, with no lawyer whispering in his ear and no litany of don't-recalls, the Secretary of State gave a distinct moral lift to an affair in which the line between heroes and villains has often been blurred. Even when Shultz was discussing whether he should have resigned to stop the arms-for-hostages scheme, his measured outrage was bracing. Given the "systematic way in which the National Security Council staff deliberately deceived me," he noted, "my sense of Did I do enough? has to a certain extent given way to a little edge...