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Some of the Salvadorans thought they were going to be flown directly to Los Angeles, more than 200 miles away. When no planes came, 14 of the group decided to stay in Mexico. But 31 agreed to cross the lightly guarded border farther east, where seven border guards must patrol a 70-mile stretch...
...through the barbed wire fence on the night of July 3 and entered the U.S. Aliens are often picked up by trucks or buses after crossing on foot, but no one met this group. The 31 started to blunder through the park. They were ill equipped to walk a mile. They carried suitcases filled with winter clothes, Bibles and perfume. The party had only 20 1-gal. plastic water jugs...
...Hanoi reported that Chinese gunners had provoked an artillery duel, "causing dozens of casualties and destroying many houses." Peking responded in kind. On July 5 a protest note was sent to Viet Nam's embassy in the Chinese capital, accusing Hanoi of "incessant armed provocations" along the 480-mile border. Chinese newspapers claimed that in the past 14 months, Vietnamese soldiers were responsible for more than 2,000 such provocations and had killed, wounded or kidnaped 240 Chinese civilians...
Britain's nuclear debate is less concerned with doctrine than with money. Specifically, the question is whether the British should buy 80 U.S.-built Trident missiles (range 4,350 miles) to replace the aging 2,880-mile Polaris in a modernized nuclear submarine force. The costs of the Tridents plus their British-made warheads and five new submarines are estimated at $10-billion, to be absorbed over 15 years. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Tory government appears to be set on the Trident option, and the Iron Lady is expected to announce that decision to the Commons later...
...Pope's 9,000-mile pilgrimage within Brazil came at a time when relations between the Vatican and bishops of the largest Roman Catholic nation were badly strained. Many Brazilian bishops resent the Vatican's investigation of Leonardo Boff, Brazil's leading proponent of "liberation theology," which is built upon Marxist economic theory. When the Vatican asked Progressive Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns to discourage a meeting of liberation theologians, he pointedly ignored the request. In turn, the Pope has rejected the suggestions from the Brazilians in his past four appointments of new bishops for their country...