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Life has become an ordeal for the people of this hauntingly beautiful land of tropical flowers, green mountainsides and winding gorges. Already burdened with the region's highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of Latin America's lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year), the Salvadorans now face the possibility of economic collapse. The war has brought foreign investment to a halt, chased millions of dollars' worth of capital out of the country and crippled many transportation and communication links. The country's gross national product has dropped 19.5% since...
...life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic outing than a "sobering ordeal." He worried that the Germans had crushed the ripe pears that he was carrying. Though he spends much of his service playing cards with generals, he is surprised that his fellow prisoners view war as a chore, rather than a "sacred crusade...
...with mounting concern as Sandinista troops began moving into the bustling town, a stronghold of the country's independent-minded Miskito Indians. Then, on a moonlit night just before Christmas, the Hondurans began hearing bursts of automatic rifle fire. An Indian mineworker, Roberto Vidal Poveda, 18, recounted his ordeal to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, who talked to a number of Miskito refugees: "During the night, the Sandinistas took us out and started to kill us, one by one. They made me stand by the river, but I jumped when they started to shoot. Two bullets...
...medical treatment less than two weeks earlier, and Laingen was describing an anti-American demonstration outside the embassy. Laingen left the letter on his office desk. Three days later-on Nov. 4, 1979-the embassy was overrun by Iranian militants and America's 444-day hostage ordeal began...
...honor with mock sternness at last week's annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. "Forgive me. I'm going to pull rank on you." With that, the Commander in Chief proceeded to lavish an encomium on Brigadier General James L. Dozier for bravery during his 42-day ordeal as a prisoner of Italy's Red Brigades terrorists. Added Reagan with deft simplicity: "Welcome home, soldier...