There are changes however : Although the first scenes of Operation Apocalypse still play in the fictional Central-American state of '' Mantegua '' , for the rest of the stories , cities and nations are openly called by name : The two stolen F14 fighters are flown by renegade pilots from Iran hired by Lady X , the summit the terrorists want to bomb is the real-life North – South Summit at Cancun , Mexico and when marooned on a Caribbean islet , Buck and Sony are rescued by a destroyer that is openly Cuban . ( With Hubinon , the ship would be from a fictional Caribbean state ) . Furthermore , where in earlier albums , ' terrorists ' were solely motivated by greed or revenge , the terrorists of the ' Apocalypse ' story have a distinct left wing radical ideology reminiscent of the Baader Meinhoff or Red Brigade groups . Also , where former albums just make allusions to ' Washington ; or ' the President ' , here an accurately drawn President Reagan is addressed by name as he gives out orders firsthand
North – South Summit
North–South Summit
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