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...their control by the end of the year, thereby testing the Sandinista government's ability to survive. In the past few weeks, however, the contras' advance has been reversed. With the help of 3,000 fresh troops, the Sandinistas have driven the F.D.N. back to a narrow ribbon of bases along the Honduran border...
...Jimmy Stewart, 75, was in the right place last week when his boyhood town of Indiana, Pa. (pop. 16,000), threw a three-day birthday party in his honor. To celebrate the return of its leading man, Indiana poured on the Americana, with parades, air shows, harness races and ribbon cuttings. The high point of the festivities came when city elders unveiled a 9-ft. statue of its favorite son. Drawled the still gangly, 6-ft. 2½in. Stewart: "This is sort of where I made up my mind about things, about hard work and the value...
...people on Sicily's east coast have always lived uneasily in the shadow of Mount Etna, which has erupted 22 times in the past 75 years. Two months ago, Europe's tallest active volcano (10,700 ft.) awoke once again. Down its south face surged a molten ribbon of lava that destroyed a dozen buildings and more than 370 acres of fields and forests, causing millions of dollars' worth of damage...
...until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist's death, on November 21, 1911, that the family overcame its sense of shame over this 'useless member of society, unworthy of any sympathy.' On that occasion they laid a wreath on his grave. The inscription on the ribbon read: 'To the best of his line...
When Congress last year killed the dense pack basing plan for the MX, the 96-ton ten-warhead missile seemed permanently grounded. Then the blue-ribbon Scowcroft Commission recommended last month that the U.S. develop a smaller, possibly mobile, single-warhead Midgetman missile. In the meantime, the commission suggested, the U.S. should demonstrate its political will by placing 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos, even though these sites might be vulnerable to attack. Key members of Congress wanted the Midgetman, as well as a more flexible approach to arms control. President Reagan wanted the MX and was willing...