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...Soviet Union, the trip will mark the first time an East German party leader has set foot in West Germany, and only the second time since the two countries were created nearly 40 years ago that leaders of both have met face-to-face on German soil...
Suddenly, 25 armed men disguised as soldiers appeared and rounded up eleven miners and guaqueros. Forcing them to lie face down in the gritty black soil, the gunmen coolly shot and killed their victims one by one, then escaped into the verdant hillside. When real Colombian soldiers arrived to investigate the slaughter, they got no information from local villagers. Though many people heard and saw the shootings, none would admit it for fear of meeting a similar fate. The official conclusion: the incident was just another in a long line of vendettas among the thousands of emerald hunters afflicted with...
...valid mining claims. Even so, it will take years for the new park to become fully operational, says Superintendent Al Hendricks. Hiking paths are barely marked, roads often too bumpy for cars, and campsites have no potable water. Rangers are still taking inventory of plant and animal life, charting soil types and reviewing mining claims. The public has taken a role in park planning through a series of town- hall meetings. Among the suggestions: erecting campsite fences to keep out cows and banning fat-tired all-terrain bicycles from trails...
NATO governments invested a great deal of political capital persuading their peoples to allow the installation of the Pershings and Tomahawks on their soil. Now the Americans have turned about and decided to remove them. Not only do the European governments look foolish, but they have the additional fear of further American force withdrawals from NATO...
Some protest that the Soviets would never invade Europe, even without the presence of nuclear weapons or American troops on Western soil. That may or may not be true; they have never before been given the opportunity...