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...over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they get them right. Creative use of mnemonics helps. "Beware of hot gorillas eating nitrates casually, pop" is code for the Central American countries of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Smith leavens the work load with games like geography baseball, in which a home-run problem might be: name the 15 Soviet republics. Later in the year, it would become: name each of their capitals. Slowly, the contours of the world come into focus...
...illegal contra supply operation or may have misled Congress. A prime target is Donald Gregg, an adviser to Vice President Bush who is now ambassador to South Korea. In 1985 and 1986 Gregg's friend Felix Rodriguez played a central role in running the contra arms flights from El Salvador. Gregg has testified that he knew nothing about Rodriguez's contra involvement until August 1986. However, both Gregg's secretary and Rodriguez have said the Bush staff knew about Rodriguez's role by May 1986, when Gregg arranged a meeting between Bush and Rodriguez. The day before the meeting...
...child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N. is an equal-opportunity guerrilla group, one of the few to allow young girls to bear arms alongside the boys...
...jail. "I'd rather see him locked up than dead," she says. Ramona Penuelas, a housewife who immigrated to America in search of a better life, plans to take her 14-year- old son back to Mexico once he gets out of juvenile detention. Zuela Menjivar is from El Salvador, and her dreams for a more prosperous life are so earnest that she has a subscription to FORTUNE magazine but no washing machine. She can't keep her 14-year-old away from the gangs. Once she screamed at him, "I'll send you to Salvador, where you can really...
...group up the street, for Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach the carnage of Beirut or El Salvador on a per capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma. The U.S. Army has begun sending doctors to train in the emergency room of Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital in Watts, because there they can get 24-hour-a-day experience treating the kind...