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...current challenge, his powers may be sharply curtailed. Says a U.S. analyst in Washington: "Arafat used to behave like an Arab potentate, always getting his own way. No more." To retain his position, he will have to make concessions to the rebels and particularly to the Syrians, whose aim is to re-establish themselves as a diplomatic force in the Middle East and who may not be willing to countenance Arafat's continued leadership. Arafat's troubles were also welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who described the quarreling within the P.L.O. as "good for Israel...
Track Star Carl Lewis takes aim at four Olympic gold medals...
...what could prove to be the greatest advance in grocery merchandising since the supermarket, the Phone In-Drive Thru market has opened in (where else?) Los Angeles. With the aim of eliminating the cart-pushing, checkout-waiting drudgery of conventional stores, Entrepreneur Ron Cameron, 41, has devised a system by which the shopper does not have to set foot in the store. In return for a $20 one-time membership fee, the householder gets a 33-page monthly catalogue listing nearly 4,000 products from which he or she can order. The customer then phones it in to a computer...
Since the rebels lack transportation, heavy equipment and medicine, they must rely on resilience and resourcefulness. Their principal aim is to stem the tide of refugees. Along the exit route in the Panjshir Valley, for example, they check the papers of every would-be emigrant, turning back those without appropriate mujahedin documentation. In battle, the rebels specialize in bushwhacking tank columns, raiding army garrisons, blowing up power lines and assassinating members of the KhAD. Using Soviet land mines fished out of the ground with wooden pitchforks, they destroyed at least twelve enemy tanks in the Panjshir Valley last year...
Brutal austerity measures aim at shrinking an $86 billion mountain of debt