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...become a home for the 3,500 anti-Sandinista contras of the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE) and, in the process, a target for Nicaraguan reprisals. Just three months ago, after ARDE Chief Eden Pastora Gomez used his Costa Rican base to launch a 36-hour attack on the Nicaraguan port town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua struck back by firing 60 rockets at the Costa Rican border settlement of Poco Sol. Not long before the Sandinistas began assaulting the border town of Peñas Blancas, Costa Rican President Monge sent an urgent message to Washington asking that...
...rules of Persian Gulf warfare, every military action produces an equal reaction. Fortnight ago, Iraqi planes struck two tankers near the Iranian oil depot at Kharg Island. Last week jet fighters with Iranian markings attacked the Japanese-managed supertanker Primrose as it was carrying oil from the Saudi Arabian port of Ras Tanura. The 276,424-ton vessel suffered only minor damage, and no injuries were reported...
...filter back and threaten Israel's northern border again. Israel sometimes goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure its safety. Israeli gunboats intercepted a ferryboat on its run between Cyprus and Beirut last week and brought it to the Israeli port of Haifa. Authorities detained nine passengers, most of them Lebanese Shi'ites who had just returned from Iran. Israeli officials insist Israel will not turn southern Lebanon into a "North Bank," but Defense Minister Moshe Arens admits that a complete pullback is "going to take a little time...
...face it," said the Times of India, "the ship that is India is in serious trouble. If we are lucky, it may drift into some reasonably safe port. If not, it can get wrecked on its way to nowhere. We need not go into history to discover that not all ships make it to port." That somber reflection on the present condition of a country that is still known as the world's largest democracy came as tension in troubled Punjab was beginning to ebb. Three weeks after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent the Indian army to Amritsar...
Then, too, journalism necessarily deals with discontinuities. One has never heard of the Falkland Islands. Suddenly the Falklands are the center of the universe; one knows all there is to know about "kelpers" and Port Stanley; sheep jokes abound. In the end, as at the beginning, no one really knows anything about the Falkland Islands other than the war that gave it momentary celebrity-nothing about the people in the aftermath of the war, their concerns, isolation, or their true relationship to Argentina and Britain. Discontinuities are valuable because they point up the world's variety as well...