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...happened, preparations for Big Pine II also began last week: an advance force of 250 U.S. soldiers was flown into Honduras, for the start of months of elaborate military exercises with that country's armed forces. The maneuvers, nominally for training purposes, have a more important strategic intent as well: Reagan wants to intimidate the leftist insurgents in El Salvador and, even more, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua that supports them...
...next six months will test and, depending on events in Central America or other war zones, could radically change that tough-and-ready policy. During a one-month period early next year, the Big Pine II troops are scheduled to leave Honduras, the Kissinger commission is due to complete its recommendations for U.S. Central American policy and El Salvador has promised its first free election of a President. Perhaps more significantly, way up north in New Hampshire the U.S. presidential primary season begins officially: from now on, domestic political considerations will figure more and more in any Administration plans...
Alongside the stream, the neon lights of the handful of motels and restaurants wink on. A heavy truck, loaded with cut pine, rumbles past on U.S. 20. Off to the west, Bishop Peak turns indigo. As the darkness unfurls, Lempke stands in a spot he has stood in a hundred times before, watching his fish move downstream. He pauses for a moment, then, feeling the pressure on the line, moves downstream. "Look at the son of a gun go," he says to no one in particular, and pulls his hat closer to his skull...
...arrested Winfield in the dressing room on charges of "willfully causing unnecessary cruelty to animals." The possible penalty: a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail. Yankee Manager Billy Martin, loser of a dispute involving a home run hit by George Brett's now famous pine-tarred bat, felt that his star was getting a bad rap. "They say Winfield hit the gull on purpose," said Martin. "They wouldn't say that if they could see the throws he's been making all year...
...strong conviction of the league that games should be won and lost on the playing field." The umpires' call was "technically defensible"; MacPhail did not blame them. With a flourish, he even commended "Manager Martin and his staff for their alertness." But all future complaints about pine tar will have to be lodged before the fact. Brett's cherished bat, "a seven-grainer," one ring for every year of a tree's troubled life, was returned to him with the heralded news that he had 20 home runs, not 19, and there are still two outs...