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...agricultural areas west of the capital. After resisting briefly, most of the guerrillas quickly moved elsewhere. Now the army is massing its forces in the northwest department of El Quiché, a mountainous jungle area that is considered to be one of the guerrillas' major strongholds. The rugged terrain favors the insurgents, who are surprisingly well equipped. At one fortification discovered in the earlier sweep, the soldiers found networks of tunnels and supplies of M16 rifles, .50-cal. machine guns, recoilless rifles, bazookas, tons of medical supplies, and enough canned goods to feed 40 guerrillas for a year. Many...
...refers to as his "ace of spades," and which does resemble the black pip on that card pushed and pulled out of shape. It is Diebenkorn's way of breaking up the remote geometry of the Ocean Parks; one no longer sees a distant "view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock or a breast, the petals of a flower rising on its stalk, or-in some of the drawings-the black propped lid of a grand piano...
...fracture, suddenly emerged from his hospital bed early last week to appear in a wheelchair in the Knesset. There he brusquely announced that his government would make into law what Israel has long accomplished in fact: the takeover of the strategic Golan Heights, 444 sq. mi. of rocky terrain captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Said Begin: "We are talking about our very lives and our future, and the welfare of this nation...
...based in West Germany could drop a 20-kiloton warhead within 80 ft. of a target in the Soviet Union some 1,000 miles away just eight minutes after firing. The ground-launched cruise missile, or GLCM, is even more accurate, and able to avoid radar by hugging the terrain, following maps in its internal guidance system...
Also on the Columbia were two devices designed to map various geological resources. An imaging radar, a 30-foot long rectangular antenna, bounced sonar waves off terrain and oceans to produce images of the reflecting surfaces. And a multispectral radiometer scanned selected areas at ten infrared wavelengths...