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...entrance to the capital's San Andres University campus, and rangers in dark berets patrol out side Miraflores military garrison, the headquarters of the army general staff. The main sign of activity at Miraflores is an irregular flow of white Toyota behind without license plates used to transport prisoners rounded up for questioning by armed civilians working for the regime. To Bolivians inquiring worriedly about friends or relatives who have disappeared behind Miraflores' yellow plastered walls, the usual answer is, "We have no prisoners." Foreign observers estimate, however, that at least 2,000 people have been arrested since...
Despite denials by Billy Carter, it is still uncertain whether or not he attempted to intervene on Libya's behalf to press his brother's Administration to lift the ban on the delivery of eight C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft. It is also unclear whether Billy discussed with an arms merchant a possible machine gun deal for Libya. One Justice Department document cites Billy admitting that he was so involved; another has him denying...
...opposes, Gaddafi was considered unreliable by Soviet leaders, although they were generously plying him with sophisticated arms. While Gaddafi kept selling oil to the U.S., his relations with Washington had been strained ever since 1973, when President Nixon blocked the sale of eight C-130 Hercules military jet-transport planes to Libya. The Arab nation had paid Lockheed $60 million for the aircraft, but Nixon denied the required export license in hopes of restraining Libya's encouragement of international terrorism...
Since early July, workers in 68 enterprises have walked off the job. The most dramatic protest occurred in Lublin (pop. 300,000), where railway and other transport workers brought the southeastern city to a standstill for three days. The army had to be called in to deliver milk and bread. Instead of resorting to force, local party leaders used wall posters to appeal for a return to order. Among the pleas was a Politburo warning that the strikes "could awaken the concern of our neighbors"-a thinly veiled reference to the possibility of Soviet intervention...
...granted in virtually all the enterprises hit by strikes. More significant, the workers won the regime's promise not to retaliate against strike leaders. Even as the Lublin walkout ended, other strikes were bursting out: at the Stalowa Wola steel mill about 50 miles south of Lublin, among transport workers in Chelm 40 miles to the east, among newspaper deliverymen in Warsaw, at an agricultural machinery plant in Wroclaw. The strikes came in the midst of an economic crisis that could compel the regime to impose further austerity. If it does, there are few signs that the people will...