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...principal target. In Esteli, beleaguered guardsmen protected themselves by holding twelve of the town's leading citizens hostage. And in Monimbó, an Indian barrio of 12,000 people on the outskirts of Masaya, angry rebels who have been battling the National Guard almost daily since February finally overran the local guardia station and slaughtered its two officers and a dozen enlisted...
Five hundred miles to the southeast, Colonel Mengistu's forces have begun a counteroffensive in the Ogaden region. Last fall ethnic Somali tribesmen, aided by Somalia, overran most of the Ogaden, in what Somalia claims is a liberation war to clear out the Ethiopian "colonizers." Now the fierce but poorly equipped Western Somali Liberation Front is badly overextended, and Somalia claimed last week that Ethiopian forces had launched a major attack out of Harar, one of only two towns in the area that the Ethiopians hold...
...four, young Loret was placed in an orphanage; eventually he was adopted by a well-to-do French family. Eighteen years later, when Hitler overran France in 1940, he ordered the Gestapo to find mother and son, who had independently made their ways to Paris...
Bloody Siege. The Spain she returns to bears slight resemblance to the one she fled in 1939 when General Francisco Franco's forces overran the Spanish capital. During the bloody siege of Madrid, she admonished housewives to prepare boiling oil to throw at the invaders, and organized a women's brigade that fought alongside the men at the battlefront. "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees," she shouted. 'They shall not pass!" It quickly became the Loyalists' rallying...
Arkansas State University budgeted $821,000 for athletics last year but spent $225,000 more than that. Tulane University allocated $2.6 million to its athletics program and overran that by $200,000. The University of Minnesota, with a $3.9 million athletics budget, is now saddled with a cumulative deficit of $450,000 and a possibility of having to use tuition income to pay the sporting bills. On many other campuses too, university presidents who once remained at a distance from athletics issues are struggling to contain repeated financial losses from sports...