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...what do we learn? We learn the Phillips Curve (Social Analysis 10), the Pleven Plan (Historical Studies B-70), Kant's categorical imperative (Moral Reasoning 22) and Beethoven's Ninth (Lit & Arts B-69). Or maybe we learn Freud's conception of human nature (SA 11), the 95 Theses (HSB-18), Aristotle's view of It Happened One Night(MR 34) and Rembrandt's Night Watch (L&A B-25). Someone else might learn about religious revivalism in Sri Lanka (SA 36), ancient Chinese tribal patterns (HS B-2), the theology of Maimonides (MR 19) and Duke Ellington's "Take...
Just before he angrily resigned as Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze went out of his way to help his friend James Baker with a problem in Central America. The Secretary of State suspected that leftist guerrillas in El Salvador had acquired sophisticated Soviet SA-7 and SA-14 shoulder-held antiaircraft missiles to use against the U.S.-backed government. Baker gave his counterpart a photo of a seized launching tube, and Shevardnadze promised to investigate. In their last meeting in Houston, Shevardnadze informed Baker that the missiles were part of a shipment sent to Nicaragua in 1986. Armed with that...
...their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility. Then on Nov. 25 came an even greater shock for Washington. An unmarked plane carrying 24 SA-7 surface-to- air missiles crashed in El Salvador. The weapons were intended for the F.M.L.N. guerrillas -- a clear violation of repeated Soviet assurances that surface-to-air missiles would not reach El Salvador. What followed was an escalation of U.S.-Soviet tensions that threatened to undermine progress on arms...
...before the President's plane lands or just after it takes off. Although the Colombian drug cartels have apparently never used such weapons before -- and there is still no hard evidence that they have acquired them -- there are certainly plenty of SAMs, primarily U.S.-made Stingers and Soviet-built SA-7 Grails, available through illegal channels. Both are portable, shoulder-mounted rockets that use tiny infrared sensors to home in on the heat generated by a jet engine...
...were rammed through the legislature last week. Death squads are on the rise; evidence collected by human-rights groups strongly implicates the army in the killing of six Jesuit priests three weeks ago. Predictably, the criminal investigation of the Jesuits' slaying -- in contrast to the official probe of the SA-7s' origin -- has got nowhere...