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Reagan has stated that he wants to make the Sundinistas cease supplying the guerrillas in El Salvador. Well, those guerrillas are still fully armed. The President would certainly enjoy seeing the Sandinistas sink into Central American anarchy, but the Sandinistas are stronger than ever. The Nicaraguan junta has been warning of an American invasion for more than two years. American muscle flexing and saber rattling gives them the best of both worlds, allowing the Sandinistas to capitalize on public fear of the Yankee threat without risking a war. And after a solid week of sonic booms over Managua-probably caused...
...been careful to avoid provocative gestures. In June he disavowed Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan's various venomous remarks, and Jackson has not appeared with his former ardent supporter since last spring. Farrakhan still delivers his disturbing messages at meetings and on the radio, but most now sink into well-deserved obscurity. In addition, Jackson offered a moving apology in his Democratic Convention speech to those, including Jews, whom he had offended. Thus while Jackson is still deeply mistrusted by Jewish voters, he seems not to have provoked anything like a serious anti-Mondale backlash...
...short-lived sensation with Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy that crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed the granules too fast would get a stomachful of carbonation. But the candy was nothing that youngsters could sink their teeth into, and the fad eventually lost its fizz...
...than two weeks after the guns of September 1939, by reminding Churchill that they were both naval ministers during World War I. "Keep me in touch personally with anything you want me to know about," Roosevelt urges. Churchill does, first with a telephone call about a German threat to sink a U.S. merchant ship, and subsequently with an outpouring of 1,161 letters, telegrams, congratulations and miscellaneous messages (Roosevelt's answers: a slightly more laconic...
...lemon. The sponsor of that milestone in marketing history is Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, the French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South Atlantic on May 4, 1982, with a loss of 20 seamen. Aerospatiale bought a page in The Economist (estimated circ. 252,000), which usually costs about $5,650, to dispute recent reports that the Exocet is not really the devastating ship killer...