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...Palmerola, 50 miles northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, a remarkable transformation has taken place. TIME Senior Correspondent Peter Stoler first visited the installation last September. Back then, U.S. military officers stationed at the base gave free rein to visiting journalists and photographers. Now, reports Stoler, "the approach to the U.S. part of the base is guarded by large pieces of concrete sewer conduit, placed on the approach road to form an obstacle course for trucks that might be loaded with dynamite. The new public affairs officer seems dismayed that a reporter will ask him questions about the 224th...
...young man in the tie and sweater holding a copy of the Watch tower, who stands at the door of an apartment in suburban Thousand Oaks, 40 miles and several dozen life-styles northwest of Melrose, fixing the uninterested girl who answered the door with his deep eyes, saying, "Today I'm here to talk about God's word...
...policies that chilled rosebud are not difficult to trace, though in the beginning, as the U.S. Supreme Court later noted, Congress showed "the most anxious desire to conciliate the Indian nations." The famous Northwest Ordinance, which the first Congress ratified in 1789, stipulated that "The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent." But with the ascendance of Andrew Jackson the federal government abandoned all pretense of concern for Indian rights. In place of conciliation Jackson and his successors pursued a policy of removal and relocation...
...NATO and the European Community. But on one issue Benn was unable to contain himself. Charging that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was planning to "destroy all unions," he condemned the government's decision to ban union membership at the supersecret Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham, 99 miles northwest of London, as "a major attack on civil liberties...
...holy territory, a land where the fog that drifted in from the Pacific mixed with sacred spirits in the skies. The men and women who swarm over that windswept ground today are still concerned with the heavens, but for a different reason: they are turning part of that area northwest of Los Angeles into the space age's newest launching site, the second center of the U.S. shuttle program. The scheduled first flight: October...