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Despite government efforts to seal off the remote villages, a few local tribespeople insisted on returning at midweek to the lands farmed by their ancestors. Their homecoming could not have been a happy one. As the Rev. Fred Tern Horn, a Dutch priest who serves in the area, described the scene, "it was as though a neutron bomb had exploded." All of the huts and buildings remained intact, and the mountains and tropical forests appeared unscathed. But almost no life stirred for miles around...
...midweek the government announced that it will press criminal charges against 780 of the 3,000 or more people, most of them blacks, who have been detained under the security regulations since June 12. Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, reports that among the detainees are 900 union activists, including Elijah Barayi, president of the 500,000- member Congress of South African Trade Unions. The giant black labor organization set this Thursday as its deadline for the government to meet "minimum" demands, including the release of all union leaders. Otherwise, % the unions may decide to call a national...
...left shoulder. If there was an attempt at a coup--and journalists in Libya could detect no more than some mysterious firing--Gaddafi survived that too and appeared to be no more than momentarily subdued. No wounds were visible when he began making appearances on Libyan TV at midweek, apparently to reassure his countrymen that the U.S. attack was over and he was still in command...
...arsenals imposed by the unratified SALT II agreement. A new Trident submarine, equipped with 24 ballistic missiles, is scheduled to begin sea trials on May 20. The vessel's entry into the U.S. arsenal would mean going over the ceilings set by the treaty. As Reagan reiterated in his midweek press conference, no decision on the question of limits has yet been made. The battle will be joined this week by the National Security Council, which is scheduled to debate the options. Top Pentagon officials, mindful of alleged Soviet violations of the treaty, are lobbying hard to break through SALT...
...incursion spoke for itself. There had been talk of a bipartisan compromise that would temper the contra aid with a requirement that the Administration renew bilateral talks with the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. At midweek, however, Reagan signed a letter firmly stating, "Conditioning our aid to the Nicaraguan resistance on the initiation of direct bilateral talks, without first requiring that the Sandinistas talk to their own internal opposition, would seriously undercut our friends in the region and our foreign policy worldwide...