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...mountains, seeking the paths of least resistance, flowing around obstacles instead of trying to go through or over them. Hart has consulted the fusty volumes of strategists like Germany's General Karl von Clausewitz and America's Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. The Senator has studied Indian warfare, Napoleon's defeats, the apocalyptic battles of World War I. His advocacy of a stronger Navy, simpler and more reliable weapons and advancement of field officers over bureaucrats stems from his finding that when armed forces stay lean and flexible, they can defeat superior masses. A new old idea...
...polls are any indication, Salvadorans instead appear to lean towards moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte of the Christian Democrats, who, from 1980-82, led the junta that succeeded decades of military rule. Although once considered a viable dark horse, National Conciliation Party candidate Francisco Jose Guerrero now ranks third behind Duarte and d'Aubuisson. Since it is unlikely' that any one contestant will win a clear-cut majority, there will most likely be a May run-off between the top two contenders...
...same time, De Gaulle made the world defer to France as no leader had since Napoleon. He withdrew his country from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's command structure, gave France its nuclear force de frappe and blocked Britain's entry into the Common Market To many countrymen, he was merely demanding the respect a great nation deserved. To others, he was being thin-skinned and dictatorial. Indeed in ten years after De Gaulle returned to power, Cook reports, his government obtained 350 convictions under an old law against "insulting the head of state," up from three...
...form of government - by council and committee, hardly a democracy in the modern sense but a vast improvement, in point of rights and liberty, on the feudal or city-boss regimes that prevailed elsewhere in Europe - had scarcely changed since the 14th century, and would continue until 1797, when Napoleon abolished...
...white-and-blue emblems of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym of ARENA. Sidewalk intersections are spray-painted with the green fish symbol of ARENA'S chief rival in the eight-party presidential race, the centrist Christian Democrats led by Jose Napoleon Duarte. On El Salvador's four television channels, political advertisements exhort voters to choose the man among the many who can save the country...