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...Aguacate military base, some 60 miles from the Nicaraguan border, is now widely known as the main contra supply depot. The 8,000-ft. airstrip at the base was improved and extended by U.S. Army engineers last year, during the joint U.S.-Honduran military exercise known as Big Pine II. Another helpful installation for the F.D.N. is a sophisticated training base 90 miles southwest of Tegucigalpa, originally built by the U.S. The contras have also made use of Tiger Island, a hush-hush radar station in the Gulf of Fonseca that is tightly guarded by a contingent of about...
...debate at Pine Manor College was one of a flurry the candidates have been holding recently in the wide-open race for the Senate seat being vacated by Paul E. Tsongas...
...George Brett's "pine tar" home run provided perhaps the most memorable news from last year's baseball season. Who was on base when Brett hit the tworun homer against the Yankees...
...Palmerola base is only part of a new U.S. military establishment in Honduras, permitted under the terms of a revised military agreement between the two countries. According to Pentagon spokesmen, about 1,750 U.S. personnel are in Honduras, many of them holdovers from Big Pine II, the U.S.-Honduran military exercises conducted from August of last year until February. Yet another joint exercise, known as Grenadero I, is scheduled to be mounted in Honduras in June or July; Pentagon officials say that it will be smaller than the Big Pine exercise, which involved 6,000 U.S. troops...
Solutions seem a long way off. Arboreal experts are only now beginning to assess the severity of the problem. The Forest Service, for example, has just started a study of the condition of yellow pine, the South's prime source of commercial timber. At Oak Ridge, botanists are examining samples of soil for traces of metals such as aluminum and zinc. In May, U.S. forest experts will travel to West Germany to compare notes with European scientists; in turn, German researchers will visit the U.S. in June. Says Fred White, staff forester with the North Carolina division of forest...