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...Washington's antipathy was the result rather than the cause of this pro-Soviet stance. Even as the U.S. was still supplying aid to Nicaragua during the year after its revolution, the Sandinistas chose to develop powerful party, military and internal-security organs that mirror those of the Soviet system. The nine-man directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) is fashioned after the twelve-member Soviet Politburo. The comandantes make decisions communally, keep their inner maneuverings secret and issue unchallengeable edicts. The Sandinista People's Army seems a miniature replica of the Soviet armed forces, relying exclusively...
...longer than the Salyut 7 but only slightly wider. Since the new space station is not intended to house bulky experimental gear, it has much more living space inside. Crew members have separate "cabins," or cubicles, each equipped with a folding chair, a desk, a mirror and a sleeping bag. The common area of the space station's living unit features a dining table, a buffet built into a nearby bulkhead, and exercise equipment for the crew. The station is fitted with a large number of portholes, providing views from all four sides of Mir. One oversize porthole has been...
...also the beginning of the end for Fleet Street as the 200-year-old center of the British newspaper industry. Robert Maxwell, the mercurial publisher of the leftish Daily Mirror (circ. 3 million), plans to follow Murdoch to the east London docklands area by 1987. He has already persuaded the unions to allow him to lay off one-third of his company's 6,000 workers in exchange for severance benefits. The conservative Daily Telegraph (1.2 million), now controlled by Canadian Tycoon Conrad Black, hopes to finish its headquarters in east London by the fall. The liberal, thoughtful Guardian...
...confusion that we feel in tackling his complex subject matters, Always includes many of the rough edges lacking in Allen's work, displaying a more realistic montage of human emotions and foibles. That leaves a more realistic picture through which we can examine ourselves, though a more reflective mirror isn't always what we want to look at and can be less entertaining...
...paid him by then, and you stand before the wall-length mirror, wondering whether to wax it. The old man takes down the picture of his boy, puts it in your bloody hand...