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Alvarez's blatant cronyism had become a source of rancor in the Honduran armed forces; so had increasing rumors of corruption within his clique. The Defense Minister began avoiding meetings of the armed forces superior council. When he did attend one last month, says a participant, Alvarez was "gross and vulgar." Younger officers suspected that he was tapping their telephones and following their personal movements. Some junior military men may have been bothered by Alvarez's embrace of the U.S. training center in Honduras for Salvadoran troops: many Honduran officers have lingering memories of their country...
...Georgetown graduate on hand in Seattle last week called the ultimate 84-75 victory over Houston a "demonstration of our superior intellect." There are better players hi the N.B.A., but it is the fans' ability to suspend reason that sets off the college game. Students and alumni genuinely imagine that they have something in common with the people enlisted to play basketball for them, holding onto the spirit of a time when everyone matriculated together and a few went out for the team. Cynicism is not unknown, only suppressed. In some places, a lot of things are suppressed...
...Middlesex Superior Court had temporarily blocked the ban at the request of the Arthur D. Little Company (ADL), a local research firm investigating toxic chemicals for the military at a new laboratory in North Cambridge...
...Senator has studied Indian warfare, Napoleon's defeats, the apocalyptic battles of World War I. His advocacy of a stronger Navy, simpler and more reliable weapons and advancement of field officers over bureaucrats stems from his finding that when armed forces stay lean and flexible, they can defeat superior masses. A new old idea if there ever...
Wearing Snoopy earrings and a purple coat dotted with Teddy-bear pins, Virginia McMartin, 76, a white-haired widow, sat in a wheelchair last week in a Los Angeles superior court, her head bowed low. McMartin, three relatives and three other women faced charges that they sodomized, fondled and raped more than 100 preschool children at a day-care center run by McMartin in Manhattan Beach, a coastal suburb of Los Angeles...