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...notes, Mao had two whitewashed rooms in Yangjialing and a private air-raid shelter. On either side Chu Teh and Chou En-lai each had caves. By now their Red Army had become the Eighth Route Army and was across the Yellow River, fighting Japan. Beneath their hill, by 1942, they had built the yellow brick headquarters of the Central Committee. These three were to remain the power for almost 40 years...
...officials of Nicaragua's Sandinista government inspected the damage, the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (A.R.D.E.), a group of anti-Sandinista rebels based in neighboring Costa Rica, claimed responsibility for the air raid. The rebel group is led by Edén Pastora Gómez, "Commander Zero," a hero of the revolution that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 and now a bitter opponent of the Sandinista government. Dozens of people were in the terminal at the moment of the attack, but only four people were injured, mostly by shrapnel and flying debris. One, a young military reservist, died...
...that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern Nicaragua. Nicaraguan leaders placed the blame for the attack not on A.R.D.E. or Costa Rica but on the U.S., calling the raid "a cowardly and criminal act." Said D'Escoto: "The only true responsibility is President Reagan's and his Administration's, which has conceived, directed and financed the counterrevolutionary groups he calls freedom fighters...
...well as events in Lebanon and Central America. All ran holiday-themed stories about the politically troubled American labor union movement. There were notable differences, of course: the networks played up stories for which they had vivid pictures-the police crackdown against antigovernment demonstrators in Chile, an air raid in Managua by opponents of the Nicaraguan junta. Without comparable footage, the News-Hour dealt with these events in a few sentences. Says Lehrer: "The networks will spend $25,000 to rush home a videotape of a building burning in Beirut. We are more interested in perspective...
...officers, all of them white, were accused of abetting saboteurs from neighboring South Africa who destroyed or damaged about 25% of Zimbabwe's combat aircraft with phosphorus grenades in a midnight raid a year ago on Thornhill air force base in the Zimbabwe midlands. They were brought to court in May and faced maximum penalties of death or life imprisonment...