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That region became a death trap last week for two U.S. journalists, Los Angeles Times Correspondent Dial Torgerson, 55, and Freelance Photographer Richard Cross, 33 (see PRESS). The two Americans were driving along a road near Cifuentes, a short distance inside Honduras, when their car was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from a position on the Nicaraguan side of the border, killing the two men instantly. The Sandinistas had been harassing the road for nearly a month with machine-gun, mortar and grenade fire, killing at least five people in previous incidents. The firing was part...
...trap backfired when reporters from Advertising Age, a trade publication, began to ask questions. Their story resulted in red faces all around. Advertising Age insists that its "journalistic mission" required it to reveal the operation. Meanwhile, the authorities are still keeping close watch on the post office box in Prospect, Ill., where a few coupons have already been sent for redemption...
...contra plan had apparently been to catch our caravan in an ambush and drive us down the road, where another group was lying in wait to finish us off. Fortunately, the trap was sprung before the convoy was completely inside. As the blood-and dust-covered bodies were carried into the hospital for last rites, administered by the town priest, a Nicaraguan television crew trained its camera on the four Americans watching the scene. Our interpreter, a young woman, broke down in tears and said, "I hate what your Government is doing...
...reduce the risk of aggressive, foraging bears running into trouble, the rangers regularly trap and tranquilize strays and carry them by helicopter to remote areas of the park. But some of the grizzlies, regarded by rangers as unusually intelligent animals, persist in heading back to their new feeding grounds and eventually must be shot...
...work was a welcome departure from the lack sadaisical approach taken by their predecessors. But too often this energy was misdirected. The experience of hobnobbing with Harvard administrators makes it both easy and dangerous for students to distance themselves from their peers. Too many council members fell into this trap. The result was a worri-some haughtiness which occasionally caused the council members on student-faculty meetings to close meetings. Administrators similarly sometimes convinced representatives not to disclose topics and College statistics of high general interest which they had jointly discussed. On one occasion, a student committee actually exercised...