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...territory caught up in Central America's diverse wars, none is less hospitable than the steaming jungles, malarial swamps and sluggish rivers that make up Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. There, bands of Miskito Indians, their uniformed shoulders draped with bandoliers, travel on foot, by leaky dugout canoe and on horseback. Using modern, U.S.-made M-16 automatic rifles and M-60 machine guns, they are carrying out a hit-and-run campaign of harassment and sabotage against the government. Their mission: to regain the ancestral lands and autonomy that they feel were taken from them by the Sandinistas...
...relations, one channel has remained open for 21years: the Moscow-Washington hotline. This week, after nearly a year of sporadic negotiating, the two countries are expected to sign a pact to modernize the outmoded equipment. Most recently upgraded in 1976, the teleprinters are able to send material at the sluggish rate of 66 words-a- minute. The new system will permit almost instant transmission of texts, maps and photos. While hardly a diplomatic break through, the accord represents the only substantively new superpower agreement since Reagan took office; with the more critical talks on nuclear arms in limbo, the White...
That half-hour televised debate last week marked the first and probably last time the two candidates will meet before next Monday's parliamentary elections. With questions supplied in advance, the encounter mirrored the sluggish campaign. Opinion also seems becalmed: according to polls published in the Jerusalem Post last week, Peres and his Labor party still enjoy a cozy lead over Shamir's Likud bloc, 39.5% to 29.5%. If that gap holds, Labor could win 47 of the Knesset's 120 seats, vs. 35 for Likud...
...source: "Joe's philosophy is, 'My boys are the biggest, and they get their money up front.' " As a result of all this, in two of the first three cities on the tour, the money has been a little slow in coming. Ticket sales were sluggish in Dallas until the shows finally sold out July 3; as of the past Friday there were lots of ticket coupons at the Spec's Music stores in Miami waiting to be filled out and sent in. (The new system for buying tickets will be determined by local stadium owners...
...possibly much longer. By week's end they traced the shutdown to a faulty valve in one of the shuttle's three engines, as well as to the perfectionist main computer, which oversees all auxiliary computer systems on board. When it detected that the valve was sluggish in opening, it automatically shut down the entire operation, as curtly as it might flick off a light...