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Haig was misled. The picture in Le Figaro was actually taken more than three years ago, during the Sandinistas' successful rebellion against Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and showed bodies being burned by the Red Cross as a sanitation measure after an attack by Somoza's National Guard. Le Figaro admitted that its picture had been incorrectly captioned. The State Department insisted, however, that U.S. charges of Sandinista repression were correct. The Nicaraguans denied the claim, but TIME has independently verified that killings and forced reset dements have occurred...
Partly out of rebellion and partly out of personal style, Reese refuses to follow his sport to the realm of scientific precision. He is a noted non-practicer who doesn't believe in conditioning--it's only his competitiveness that gets him through...
...over." With that terse declaration, Syria's President Hafez Assad last week acknowledged for the first time that his country's fifth largest city had been racked by fierce revolt in recent weeks. Assad insisted that life in Hama was back to normal, but the three-week rebellion is believed to have damaged much of the city's old quarter and killed more than 1,000 people. A Western diplomat who was able to get to the edges of Hama described destruction on the outskirts of the city as severe. A good many buildings had collapsed...
Crucial to that strategy, however, is stemming any potential rebellion in Republican ranks. That will not be easy. Even Baker was leery. "Every fiber in my political body resonates against a $90 billion deficit," he said. He went so far as to mention the unspeakable, for a Republican leader: "The ultimate tragedy would be if this country, teetering now on the brink of national bankruptcy, slipped over the edge." Declared Republican Senator William Armstrong, a key member of the Senate Budget Committee: "There is close to no chance that Reagan's budget will pass. Very few Republicans would vote...
...After tea, the bugle sounded under the Rebellion Tree [an elm in front of Hollis], when 41 out of 70 bound themselves by an oath that they would not return to order till the four expelled members were recalled and Woodbury sent from the College." They also pledged that if Woodbury appeared next morning in chapel, they would not only remove him, but they would "thrash him severely...