For the Record

Bet you haven’t heard this one. Grenadan soldiers guarding the empty Cuban embassy in Grenada have uncovered an arms cache including a million rounds of ammunition, nearly a hundred M-16 rifles and AK-47 automatic rifles, plus handguns, and three rocket-propelled grenade launchers. . . . At the Sandino international airport in Managua these days, two bucks at the duty-free shop will buy you a cassette that will instruct you, to music, on how to assemble and load an M-l rifle or make a Molotov cocktail, and where various munitions and arms can be purchased. . . . According to Defense Dept.’s Under Secretary for Policy, Fred C. Ikle, 80 per cent of the arms used by Salvador guerrillas are supplied by Cuba and the USSR through Nicaragua. . . . Up north, in Canada, a poll taken four days after Pierre Trudeau announced his retirement shows an upsurge in Conservative popularity. The Tories, under Brian Mulroney, now lead Trudeau’s Liberals 54 to 32 per cent. . . . More good news: In Italy, parliament has voted 317 to 25 to approve Prime Minister Bettino Craxi’s decision to deploy 16 U.S. cruise missiles in Sicily. Communist and other left-wing deputies boycotted the vote rather than go down to defeat.

“That’s our problem, Charlie—the more we get, the more we want. ”

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Bet you haven’t heard this one. Grenadan soldiers guarding the empty Cuban embassy in Grenada have uncovered an arms cache including a million rounds of ammunition, nearly a hundred M-16 rifles and AK-47 automatic rifles, plus handguns, and three rocket-propelled grenade launchers. . . . At the Sandino international airport in Managua these days, two bucks at the duty-free shop will buy you a cassette that will instruct you, to music, on how to assemble and load an M-l rifle or make a Molotov cocktail, and where various munitions and arms can be purchased. . . . According to Defense Dept.’s Under Secretary for Policy, Fred C. Ikle, 80 per cent of the arms used by Salvador guerrillas are supplied by Cuba and the USSR through Nicaragua. . . . Up north, in Canada, a poll taken four days after Pierre Trudeau announced his retirement shows an upsurge in Conservative popularity. The Tories, under Brian Mulroney, now lead Trudeau’s Liberals 54 to 32 per cent. . . . More good news: In Italy, parliament has voted 317 to 25 to approve Prime Minister Bettino Craxi’s decision to deploy 16 U.S. cruise missiles in Sicily. Communist and other left-wing deputies boycotted the vote rather than go down to defeat.

“That’s our problem, Charlie—the more we get, the more we want. ”