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...101° heat, FBI agents swarmed over an earthen dam on Olen Barrage's Old Jolly Farm, six miles southwest of Philadelphia, Miss. Through the scrub pines and bitterweed, they bulldozed a path to the dam, then brought up a lumbering dragline whose huge bucket shovel began chewing a V-shaped wedge out of the 25-ft.-high levee. Twenty feet down, the shovel uncovered the fully clothed, badly decomposed bodies of three young men, lying side by side in a pocket of red clay. They had been dumped there while the dam was still being built, and in the weeks...
After ordering three jet fighters under his command to buzz the capital, Vargas flew to an air base in his home province of Manabí, some 150 miles to the southwest, and began a five-day rebellion. "Better to die like a man than live like a coward," he declared. The show of air power, however, suggested to some Ecuadorans that Vargas intended to launch a military coup in their country of 8.2 million people, which has been under civilian rule since...
Born Nov. 9, 1934, in the provincial town of Boras in southwest Sweden, Carlsson grew up in modest circumstances. The son of a seamstress and coffee-factory worker, he graduated from a commercial high school and went on to earn a degree in political science at the University of Lund in 1958. With Palme, Carlsson became a political protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, the architect of the Swedish welfare state. His first major post was as Minister of Education in the government formed by Prime Minister Palme in 1969. Carlsson served Palme until his death, acting...
Cautious forecasters point out, however, that the boom machine still has a few weak spots. The oil bust, for example, has threatened the stability of energy firms and banks in the Southwest. "There are always things that can go wrong," concedes Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. "But I'd say they are minimal at the present time, and the things that can go right are pretty evident...
...workers played a couple of games of softball, then went out for pizza and a few beers. But the scene was not Detroit or any other American factory town. Instead, the unlikely site of Daniel's work and play was Hofu (pop. 120,000), a city 56 miles southwest of Hiroshima in Japan. Daniel, along with 47 other Americans who work for the U.S. subsidiary of Mazda, the third largest Japanese automaker, was finishing up a four-week stint at the firm's Hofu assembly plant. Their goal: to learn how to build cars the Japanese way. Said Daniel...