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...Huddled on rooftops and in the doorways of nearby row houses, flak-jacketed police officers put their hands over their ears. Then there was an orange flash and a powerful explosion that sent wood, metal and a cloud of dust flying into the air. Said a resident of adjacent Pine Street: "The blast didn't just shake the windows, it shook our entire house...
...Yorkers cast off for the last time, they called out, "This is a case of ships deserting the sinking rat." In the morning, about breakfast time, the new owner's crew dragged away a dinghy Ellie had filled with petunias and replaced it with an upscale plant: a screw pine...
...Texas meal, paid for by the Governor's political fund, was a home- cooked treat for the 419 volunteer Texas National Guardsmen participating in the Big Pine III war games. Invited by the Department of Defense, which frequently asks National Guard units to assist in maneuvers, the reservists flew down to play the bad guys in the second stage of the three-month-long joint operation. With 17 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers, they staged a mock assault on a Honduran hilltop position, sweeping toward the encampment in a 4 1/2-mile-wide front while Honduran warplanes darted overhead...
...current U.S.-Honduran war games, dubbed Big Pine III, extend a series that began in 1983 and has become nearly continuous. In between the big maneuvers, U.S. and Honduran soldiers nearly always have some small-scale training exercise in progress. Never before, however, have so many U.S. soldiers participated in the games or used such heavy equipment so close to Nicaragua (some of the tanks maneuvered within three miles of the border). Next week's amphibious landing, named Universal Trek '85, together with Big Pine III, represents the most intricate military exercise the U.S. has conducted in this hemisphere...
...time for us all to work together to get a Harvard stamp. If we don't do it now, Lesley College and Pine Manor will have a stamp before we do," he added...