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...dawn broke the next day, the guerrillas returned with a vengeance. Some 500 members of the People's Revolutionary Army, a branch of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), descended on Berlin. Raking the town with automatic-weapons fire and rocket-propelled grenades, they devastated the puny garrison, killing or wounding four policemen and capturing or driving away the rest. The guerrillas sacked and burned Berlin's pharmacies and dry-goods stores, robbed the only local bank of $160,000, and rocketed the town's postal and telex offices. Local residents were herded into...
...reaction of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran armed forces was slow and clumsy. The day after the guerrillas began their occupation, U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets appeared over Berlin and began to strafe and rocket the town. At least two bombs were dropped a few blocks from the central plaza. Floods of refugees started to stream from their homes carrying sacks of food, clothing and hammocks, as Red Cross ambulances, their sirens screaming, crept through the streets...
...less matched those of the old SS-4s and SS-5s that were destined for retirement. But the SS-20 is an immensely more capable weapon. It is mobile, highly accurate and dauntingly destructive, with three independently targetable warheads. (SS-20 is its NATO designation. The Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces innocently dubbed it the Pioneer, in honor of the U.S.S.R.'s version of Cub Scouts and Campfire Girls...
...turned into a headache when Nitze and the U.S. team settled in at the negotiating table. Whatever its merits as a "going-in position," the zero option was clearly going nowhere in Geneva. It was simply nonnegotiable. The SS-20, after all, is the pride of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. The Kremlin has sunk billions of rubles into developing it, training its crews and getting it in place. There was no way that Moscow would agree to dismantle every one of these missiles in exchange for "paper" reductions of missiles that the U.S. had not deployed and might...
...former critic has modified his views. "I must confess I am impressed with the results achieved so far in Salt Lake City," says Dr. Denton Cooley, the famed Houston heart surgeon. Cooley had earlier likened the bold use of the cumbersome device to "putting John Glenn in a rocket in 1950 and aiming him at the moon." Jarvik feels that his invention has already proved its worth: "We have been able to offer at least one patient who was terminally ill a reasonable level of hope for a good life...