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Privately, the guerrillas concede that the success of El Salvador's presidential balloting last March came as a heavy blow to them. As U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Thomas Pickering puts it, "Since the presidential election, the guerrillas have really seen the political sand wash out from under them." Confidence in Duarte's political legitimacy, in short, provided the most important underpinning for his peace offer...
...special team of analysts dispatched from Washington is still picking through the wreckage, but President Reagan got a 15-minute preliminary report last week. No real dereliction is apparent, the team believes, although prudent jury-rigged security measures, like a sand-filled dump-truck blockade, might have prevented the attack. "In hindsight," says Under Secretary of State for Management Ronald Spiers, "they are dead right. But that's a degree of micromanagement you cannot conduct from Washington...
...swallowed a very hot chili. Migenes-Johnson, of Puerto Rican and Greek descent, is an exotic beauty, but her voice is inappropriately bland, and for all her enthusiastic writhing, she emerges as less the femmefatale than a one-night stand gone wrong. Bizet's potent mixture of blood, sand and song needs fire in the belly, as well as in the loins. -By Michael Walsh...
Finding the wrecks is often only the start. Sophisticated recovery techniques are needed to get at the loot. Various blowers are sometimes used to dislodge sand. The airlift, a sort of giant vacuum cleaner attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World...
...based obligations and, more insistently, as a lens on another world. In The Adventure of a Reader, the hero compares a printed page to the plane of water "that separates us from that blue-and-green world, rifts as far as the eye can see, expanses of fine, ribbed sand, creatures half animal and half vegetable...