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...October 21 panel discussion will feature Sen. Gordon Humphries (R-N.H.), Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), and Kurt Lohbeck, a freelance film-maker for CBS News who will show footage of conditions in the war-torn country...
...sent emotions spiraling from hope to gloom and back again. The captives were on their way to freedom, the White House had announced before dawn on Saturday. But no. They were still in Beirut. The carefully crafted plan for their release had gone awry. Darkness fell in the war-torn city, and the hostages were once again split into groups and sent back to their beds in the secret hideaways of their Shi'ite Muslim guards from Lebanon's Amal militia. When they awoke on Sunday, they had no way of knowing how much longer their ordeal would last...
None of this, however, can destroy the city's legendary mercantile spirit; even in the war-torn western sector, stores are still open, selling quality goods at bargain prices ($40 for a pair of stylish Italian-made shoes, $4 for a bottle of Scotch). Main reason: the government has been unable to collect customs duties for many months. Even some liquor stores are operating, though they keep their stocks hidden for fear of attracting the attention of fanatic Shi'ite militiamen who roam about looking for violations of the Islamic stricture against alcohol. Shortages of staples are rare; only severe...
Though the maneuvers are scarcely unprecedented, they are clearly extraordinary. Honduras, which borders on war-torn El Salvador as well as Nicaragua, makes an ideal base for U.S. operations in Central America. About 1,500 American troops are stationed there, and the U.S. has built a network of permanent facilities: airfields, antitank ditches, a full-size military hospital. It is no secret that some of these facilities have been used to support American allies outside Honduras. Contra guerrillas battling the Sandinistas in Nicaragua train at American-built camps in Honduras; U.S. pilotless, or drone, planes are said to fly from...
Dozens of local reporters and national television media scrambled to make 11 p.m. news broadcasts with stories of torture, rape and death squads from "Estella Ramirez," "Saul" and "Sonia"-pseudonyms for real life survivors of war-torn Central America...