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...week's end 20 people were being held for questioning in the massacre. Two informers who had reportedly accompanied police and survived the ordeal were "contributing information." So far one suspect has been arrested. Brigadier General Jaime Jiménez Muńóz, a Mexican army commander, believes that armed peasants, "desperate to earn money" by growing marijuana, may have done the killing. Indeed, military patrols have reported that entire villages have been abandoned by frightened peasants as soldiers comb the mountains, searching for the culprits. But evidence also indicates that powerful drug traffickers are behind the murders. "We are fighting...
More than anyone might suspect, as it turns out, when Mrs. Lloyd (Gayle Hunnicutt), vacationing in Europe, is abducted, and father and son set out to rescue her. For Walter once led a secret life as a CIA agent, and the kidnaping of his wife is an act of belated (and misdirected) revenge for an operation that cost the lives of a Communist master-spy's family two decades earlier. The Lloyds have not reclaimed their luggage at the Paris airport before Walter is forced to dispatch a thug sent to murder him. In a matter of hours...
...arms-control agreement. Despite a flurry of artfully crafted public appearances, Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev remains an unknown quantity to the American public. Some 93% of the survey group admitted knowing little or nothing about the new Soviet leader; 47% of those who know at least something about Gorbachev suspect that he cannot be counted upon to honor his end of a bargain. Gorbachev's public relations efforts and his youth (by past Politburo standards) notwithstanding, a majority of Americans consider the new Soviet boss to be part of the old Kremlin leadership, no better or worse than his predecessors...
...depth of public commitment to SDI is also suspect. Among possible goals for the summit, the survey listed, "Reaching an arms-control agreement in which the U.S. stops building the Star Wars defense system and the Soviet Union makes similar cutbacks in its military systems." A commanding 74% thought that idea to be a "very important" goal, while only 18% labeled it "not very important." If the President continues to insist that SDI offers more security than a missile cut, he will have to persuade the U.S. public as well as the Soviets of his views...
Christiansen and others suspect that magma is produced in the subduction zone, the border between the diving plate and the lower mantle. In that complicated layer, a variety of phenomena, including high temperatures, changes in pressure and the influx of water, may act to melt the already softened rock. Minerals and water then coalesce with the molten material into viscous, tear-shaped packets known as diapirs. Because they are more buoyant than surrounding rock, the diapirs percolate upward, like bubbles rising through honey, melting more rock as they go. Eventually they accumulate in pockets called magma chambers, located two miles...