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More serious than the shortages may be the flaunting of privilege by Nicaragua's political bureaucracy. Officials drive trim, Soviet-built Lada sedans while private autos frequently lack doors or windshields because spares are not available. In a Managua supermarket, many of its shelves gapingly empty, a shopper complains that he has been unable to find powdered milk for 15 days. As he talks, a woman waits at a check-out counter with, among other things, a can of powdered milk. Says a third customer: "You see, she has connections. With the right connections you don't lack anything...
...says organizations associated with the publication are collecting medical supplies, uniforms and the like but insists they do not deal in arms. The magazine has, however, recruited specialists to teach the contras about weaponry and maintenance. One of its teams has been advising the rebels on how to counter Soviet-built Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships that the Sandinistas are expected to deploy soon...
...Along appropriately named 30th of April Street, in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, there flowed last week a motley assortment of patriotic props. Goose-stepping soldiers marched in front of children waving hoops and colored handkerchiefs. Leftover U.S.-made armored personnel carriers followed rumbling Soviet-built T-54 tanks. Roller skaters mingled with medal-bedecked veterans, motorcyclists, and workers bearing a picture of Ho Chi Minh hoisting barbells above a legend that exhorted, LET EVERYONE DO EXERCISES IN THE MORNING...
...Viktor Khitrichenko, 48, a senior engineer in the economics section of the Soviet embassy in New Delhi for the past two years, last Thursday began ordinarily enough. The Indian chauffeur took the diplomat and his wife shopping, and then began driving back to the embassy. It was noon when the driver steered the off-white, Soviet-built Volga onto Satya Marg, an expansive boulevard in the heart of the capital's exclusive Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave...
...replaced, just after sunrise, by a thunderous artillery barrage. Plumes of smoke rose from the dusty thatch-and- bamboo compound as heavy Vietnamese guns poured thousands of rounds into the area--"a huge rumbling," as one witness described it, "an explosion not every minute but every second." A dozen Soviet-built T-54 tanks and nearly two dozen armored personnel carriers added to the cacophony as they nosed into battle ahead of some 4,000 Vietnamese infantrymen...