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...while the U.S. has yet to test its own equivalents. A moratorium would thus give them a public relations victory without costing them any military ground. "They don't have any more to do," President Reagan said in a press conference last week. So far this year, however, nine underground explosions have been announced for the U.S. v. five for the Soviets...
...rumored to have ties to Libya and Syria. Last year the two brothers were convicted in absentia for involvement in the 1981 hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines jet, during which a Pakistani diplomat was killed. Over the past 18 months, Shahnawaz was said to have given up his underground activities and become a partner in a fashionable Geneva restaurant. But French police said they found two revolvers and several forged passports in his apartment, along with the first draft of a book on Pakistan he had been writing...
French Premier Laurent Fabius flew to the South Pacific atoll of Mururoa last week to preside over a new round of underground nuclear tests. Accompanying him were Defense Minister Paul Quilès and a 21-member party of parliamentarians and journalists. Hours before the blast, officials announced that the French navy had seized the Vega, a ketch owned by the Greenpeace environmental organization, after the protest ship had entered French territorial waters near the test site. By week's end the four crew members were being taken to a nearby atoll and were awaiting expulsion...
Inside Bogotá's imposing Palace of Justice last Wednesday morning, more than 500 people were going about their business as usual. Suddenly, the quiet in the capital's Bolívar Plaza was shattered by bursts of gunfire as some two dozen guerrillas streamed into the building from an underground garage. Armed with pistols and machine guns, the invaders quickly took over the five-story building, shooting their way to the fourth floor judicial offices, where they took more than a dozen Supreme Court judges hostage. M-19, Colombia's best-known terror group, had struck again...
...Arizona, CAP provides an alternative to a well that is steadily going dry. Long dependent on aquifers for most of its water, the rapidly growing state has been depleting its underground supplies twice as fast as they can be replenished. CAP's annual gush will eventually furnish Arizona with some 1.5 million acre-feet of water (one acre-foot is the amount needed to inundate one acre to the level of a foot and is roughly the quantity used annually by a family of four). Babbitt, who is fond of calling CAP his state's "last water hole," likens...