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Since November, Argentina has been under an official "state of siege."In February, the army ended its two-year hibernation in barracks by deploying some 3,500 soldiers to scour the northwestern jungles of Tucumán province for leftist guerrillas. The government's muscle flexing has not been limited to terrorists. Five moderately left-wing provincial governors have been removed from office by executive decree. The universities have been purged of thousands of dissident professors. Steelworkers at Villa Constitución, the industrial center north of Buenos Aires, have been on strike for four weeks to protest...
...when they hear the whoosh of a missile leaving its tube, the observers push a button that triggers warning sirens at Pochentong Airport and in the capital. Insurgents also broke through a small section of the North Dike Road, the last line of defense before Phnom-Penh's northwestern suburbs and the airport...
...study conducted for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke now questions whether so long a wait is necessary. Dr. Benjamin Boshes, chairman of the department of neurology at Northwestern University and spokesman for the study group, says that a patient whose brain shows no activity for at least 30 minutes is "as dead as he ever will be." As a result, Boshes and his colleagues are proposing a new definition of death...
...problem in the weeks ahead will be to keep partisanship from getting out of hand. So far, there has been only one major clash. That occurred last month in the northwestern city of Oporto when thousands of leftists besieged a congress of the conservative Center Social Democratic Party and paratroopers had to be called in. The Communists are the party most likely to run into campaigning difficulties. They have no problems in areas south of the Tagus River, where the people are generally anticlerical. Things are different in northern Portugal, a closed, quasi-medieval society, where the Roman Catholic Church...
...case dates back to 1973 when the Navy announced that it had chosen an 8,500-acre tract at Bangor near the northwestern corner of the state of Washington as the home base for its Trident submarines. To support these su-persubs*-which are designed to replace the Polaris and Poseidon as nuclear deterrents-the Navy planned a $600 million complex with an estimated population of as many as 55,000 people. But the tract borders Hood Canal, a deep marine estuary leading off Puget Sound, and the more that local environmentalists learned about the Navy's plan...