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...receive to be unsettling. The new multimillionaires begin to worry about kidnap attempts on themselves and their families. They erect security fences around their homes, install elaborate burglar alarms and buy faster cars. Sy Merns, founder of Syms, a chain of eleven off-price clothing stores mostly in the Northeast, cashed in some $33 million worth of shares when his company went public in September, and his stock holdings are estimated at more than $110 million. Because of concerns about his safety, Merns refuses to allow himself to be photographed, even though he appears in his own television commercials...
...first took office, Nigeria was riding the crest of the oil boom. Its wells were producing up to $26 billion a year. The affluence led the government to press ahead with several expensive development projects, including the construction of a new capital city at Abuja, 325 miles to the northeast of Lagos. Shagari initially promised an end to corruption, but he soon learned that his room for maneuver was limited by the narrower aims of the northern political barons, whose support had ensured his election. Fueled by the oil boom, corruption flourished. Explains a newspaper editor: "It is not that...
...last days of 1983, rebels raided the hilltop.headquarters of the 4th Infantry Brigade near El Paraiso, 30 miles northeast of San Salvador. The attack proved a serious blow both to the army and to army morale. After learning that 700 of the 1,300 troops based in the garrison were away on illegally authorized holiday leaves and 200 other soldiers were absent on patrol, the guerrillas struck. In the early hours of the morning, they set off a mortar barrage, scoring direct hits on barracks where government soldiers were sleeping. Some army troops scattered in panic. Within eight hours...
...first-ever squad, formed by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68. led a pack of 25 schools in the Northeast regionals at the Coast Guard Academy in New London...
This message apparently was not enough to prevent yet another string of atrocities. In Copapayo, some 45 miles northeast of San Salvador, survivors told foreign journalists last week that troops of El Salvador's elite Atlacatl battalion herded at least 20 women and children into a house, then turned machine guns on them. In a separate incident near by, the soldiers reportedly fired on a group of more than 30 civilians, killing some outright and forcing others into a lake, where they drowned. Said a guerrilla boastfully: "This type of behavior reflects the agony of an army that...