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...nearby American embassy, two American businessmen, five Salvadorans, a Chilean and a Guatemalan. At least 15 people were injured. Witnesses said the gunmen, disguised as Salvadoran army regulars, concentrated their fire on the Marines and even hunted one down in a back room. The killers are presumed to be Marxist rebels, turning to urban terrorism because their guerrilla war in the jungles to bring down the U.S.-backed government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte is making no headway (see WORLD...
Point Salines airfield was the focus of the Oct. 25, 1983, invasion of Grenada (pop. 90,000), which involved 6,000 American troops and left 19 Americans dead. President Reagan's "rescue mission" followed a bloody coup in which Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed and extremists seized power. For more than a year afterward, the U.S. maintained a 245- member peacekeeping force on the island. Now the only remaining soldiers are two legal experts, a financial officer and some 25 U.S. Special Forces instructors who will remain until September, training the Grenadian police special service unit in counterinsurgency...
...guerrilla force has ever toppled a Marxist regime, and the Nicaraguan contras are not about to become the first. But popular disaffection with the Sandinistas guarantees the contras a steady supply of new recruits, and renewed U.S. aid will give the rebels the means to sustain a long, fitful insurgency...
Music by the Gang of Four will blare in your ears as you look through marxist and third world literature in Revolution Books (1 Arrow...
...Rebel Leader Jonas Savimbi played host to the others: spokesmen for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the Afghan mujahedin and the hill tribes opposing the Communist regime in Laos. For two days they talked and socialized in Jamba, stronghold of Savimbi's well-armed and organized movement against Angola's Marxist government, and stood shoulder to shoulder with the American who had brought them together: Lewis Lehrman, millionaire Republican leader of a lobby called Citizens for America. The group announced the formation of an alliance, Democratic International, to support "the fight for independence from Soviet colonialism...