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...13th Winter Olympics, the U.S. has dazzling athletes, high hopes...
...mile flight from the Peloponnesian Peninsula to Athens to the U.S., and a 780-mile relay run from the Virginia Tidewater to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, the Olympic flame will ignite a huge torch on a pedestal at the Lake Placid High School. With that, the 13th Olympic Winter Games "will be officially under way. In 1932, tiny Lake Placid (pop. 3,300) played host to the first Olympic Games ever held on American soil. Nearly five decades later, the same village, now even smaller (pop. 2,997), is bracing for what could prove...
...Afghanistan crisis was also softening the hostile face-off between Iran and the U.S. over the 50 American hostages, now in their 13th week of captivity. After vowing to proceed with stern economic sanctions against Iran, the Carter Administration last week made it clear that it was no longer in any real hurry to impose them. Among other things, Washington is waiting for the outcome of Iran's first presidential election, in the hope that it might produce a new leader with enough authority to face down the embassy militants, or otherwise break the deadlock...
That was Rudyard Kipling's tribute to Afghanistan, a barren moonscape of a land at the "crossroads of the world," and to its proud and savage people. Conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. and by Genghis Khan in the 13th century A.D., Afghanistan in the Victorian era served as a buffer between Imperial Russia and the British raj. The Afghans accepted it all, but they exacted a bloody price. For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan...
...Ayatullah Khomeini no way of uniting his so-called religious nation other than through the common hatred of the U.S. [Dec. 10]? If that is all he can give the Iranian people, besides a 13th century lifestyle, then perhaps they should refrain from their incessant demonstrating and make a closer examination of Khomeini and his policies...