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...order to save it. Supported by scores of MiGs and other jets, and Mi-24 helicopters, some 10,000 troops managed to fight their way through to Barikot, but after a few days the guerrillas began to close in behind and around them. The main force had to retreat, leaving behind a beefed-up garrison dug in behind a maze of minefields and heavily armed with howitzers, mortars and rocket launchers...
...September 6 address before the crowd at Harvard's 350th birthday celebration, Secretary of State George P. Shultz pointed out the evils of isolationism, warning of "thoughtless escapism, a retreat from responsibility, an attempt to evade the reality of our dependence on the world and the world's dependence...
...balmy Sunday evening, and General Augusto Pinochet was making the 23-mile trip back to the capital, Santiago, from his weekend retreat at El Melocoton, accompanied by his ten-year-old grandson. The President's armor- plated Mercedes was the fourth in a five-car caravan. Suddenly, an oncoming car pulling a small camping trailer swerved across the road, blocking the presidential motorcade. "Intense firing began," Pinochet later recalled, "with machine guns, rifles and bazookas or possibly rocket launchers and some hand grenades." The barrage, which came both from the trailer and the surrounding hillsides, cut down the two motorcycle...
Today that argument is hardly heard anymore in the Central American context. Something happened. The Salvadoran guerrillas are in retreat, and yet, mirabile dictu, root causes remain. The tides have changed, while poverty and misery endure. As for Nicaragua, those most habituated to the use of the root cause argument are contra opponents. They are hardly likely to invoke it to explain -- i.e., legitimize -- the contra cause...
...public first noticed him as Ike's apple-cheeked grandson and occasional fishing partner, the boy whose name was given to the presidential retreat in Maryland. Years later, David Eisenhower surfaced as the husband of Julie Nixon and a member of the tight family circle that drew around his father-in-law during the siege of Watergate. Given the tempers of those times, the young man seemed hopelessly out of it: clean-cut, unashamed of his hitch as a Navy officer, and about as relevant to the presumptive radicalizing of America as Howdy Doody. When Nixon resigned in 1974, David...