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...Witness affair allowed the Managua regime to hammer away at a standard theme: the Reagan Administration's alleged hypocrisy in denouncing state-sponsored terrorism. As Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez, one of Nicaragua's nine ruling comandantes, put it last week, "The U.S. condemns terrorism when a plane is hijacked. This is terrorism, and these acts should also be condemned...
...batters' equivalent of 300 victories is 3,000 hits, Carew's entry that same afternoon making a total of 16 names on this roster of saints. Since Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates died in a plane crash almost 13 years ago at 38, the approximate measure of a great hitter has become precise. Clemente had 3,000 hits exactly. That Carew, 39, would get the single for California against his old team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad...
...publisher, fresh off the plane from Johannesburg, breezes into the office and props his feet on a desk. "The Colonel," as he likes to be called, discusses upcoming story ideas. Should next month's cover feature a new machine gun, which the Colonel himself tested in South Africa? What's the latest battlefront news from Afghanistan and El Salvador? The executive editor is there, but not the small-arms editor or the sniping-countersniping editor. The meeting soon breaks up, but not before the Colonel warns a staffer headed for Central America, "Be careful down there...
...understand Egypt's wounded reaction to the U.S.'s diversion of its plane carrying the Achille Lauro hijackers. If Egypt were a true friend of the U.S.'s, it would not have been so quick to release the killers of an American into the "custody" of their P.L.O. comrades. Kenneth Gold Philadelphia...
...looked rather like a businessman in a hurry, clad in a tan trench coat and bounding up the stairs of the plane. As he neared the top, he turned and gave a wide wave, as if bidding farewell to friends. Though his behavior seemed unexceptional, even banal, that was no ordinary traveler boarding the Aeroflot jet at Dulles Airport last week. He was Vitaly Yurchenko, the Soviet KGB agent who had disappeared from a Rome street one sunny day last summer and turned up several weeks later as a defector in CIA hands. Identified initially as the fifth-highest official...