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...When people give large amounts of money they want to affect the education program, so they give less money to anything else," says Reardon. "They don't show an interest in bricks and mortar...
...lost arts have been revived: massive ice chunks were chainsawed from Lake Phalen, floated to an underwater conveyor belt, broken into blocks (21 in. by 2 ft. by 3 1/2 ft.), / shaved, sluiced down a long wooden chute, trimmed, plucked by a crane and set into place with a mortar of slushy snow...
...President Apollo Milton Obote, an estimated 3,000 rebels from a group that calls itself the National Resistance Army moved into the capital, Kampala, and quickly captured a major portion of the city. Some government troops retreated to the suburbs, but others stayed behind, fighting back with heavy mortar barrages. In the exchange of gunfire, both a hospital and a church were hit. At least 20 people were reported killed or wounded...
...years, so I think 14 years is a fair amount of time to give prospective candidates." He added, "I don't think anyone can deny the fact that had it not been for the Marcos family, the chances are that the situation would not be what it is today." Mortar fire outside the palace punctuated his remark...
Assaults into Nicaragua by anti-Sandinista guerrillas have in the past provoked occasional Nicaraguan shelling of border towns in neighboring Honduras, where the U.S.-backed contras of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force maintain their base camps. The most recent raid, late last week, drew an unusually heavy Nicaraguan mortar barrage near the town of Arenales; one Honduran soldier was killed and eight others were wounded. In response, the Honduran air force dispatched, for the first time, some of its U.S.-made F-86 jet fighters to attack Nicaraguan positions. The Hondurans said the aircraft fired on Sandinista troop concentrations and shot...