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HONDURAS. The poverty-stricken Miskito Indians who eke out an existence in the northeastern Honduras department of Gracias a Dios had never seen anything like it. As U.S. Air Force C-141 transports and giant C5-A Galaxies roared overhead, Honduran special-forces parachutes bloomed in the skies above that remote and inhospitable corner of the country, twelve miles from the Nicaraguan border. In the nearby Caribbean coastal town of Puerto Lempira, two 8,800-ton U.S. Navy landing craft nosed ashore to deposit 580 members of the Honduran fourth infantry battalion. A mile away, U.S. Army officers huddled...
...comes when he gets the sack after two decades at the school. "O Lord," he says like a last gasp of wind escaping from a toy balloon. He cannot comprehend it, and such is Ramsay's control of the nuances of his part that the playgoer is as stricken...
...Christian churches may differ in doctrine and in their basic convictions about what mission work is all about, but one factor tends to unite liberals and conservatives, Protestants and Catholics: they are all reaching out to the poor. By and large, the unevangelized populations of the world are those stricken by poverty and threatened by rapid change in their societies. All these conflicting patterns and tensions converge in Latin America, which has more U.S. missionaries than any other part of the world: some 9,250 Protestants and 2,180 Catholics. With a few notable exceptions, Catholic missionaries in the 17th...
...rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them. In the 17 months that the CDC has been tracking the epidemic, a total of 827 cases of AIDS have been reported in 33 states; 312 have ended in death...
...travel around California campaigning for a nuclear freeze. In between some backseat driving, he talked to Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell. During the week that she spent with Newman, Worrell also watched him spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that had fallen on a patio table and, inevitably, jump up to prepare a bowl of popcorn. Says Worrell: "He is hyper and whimsical. But he wears his humor like armor; underneath, he is serious about his activism and his acting...