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...total. During the day the Kunar valley echoes with the drone of Mi-8 utility choppers shuttling men and supplies from Chaghasaray up to Asmar or down to Jalalabad. The danger increases as dusk approaches. It is then, when a man's shadow is longest, that the armor-plated Mi-24 helicopter gunships come in low on their final patrols...
...month ago, Kabul erupted in violent anti-Soviet demonstrations. These were savagely put down by armor, helicopter gunships and Soviet-directed Afghan troops. First reports said that some 400 civilians had been killed, and hundreds wounded, in the crushing of the uprising, which began with cries of "God is great!" and "Down with the Russians!" around the 18th century Pul-i-Hesti mosque and in the nearby Chahr Chatta (four arcades) bazaar in the old section of the city. Rumors in the capital now have it that as many as 1,500 people were killed. Most casualties reportedly occurred...
...Pakistani border city of Peshawar to form yet another loosely structured "united front." Their aim: to seek financial support for more arms. One group sent representatives to mosques throughout Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, hoping to collect $20,000 for local gunsmiths to build portable armor-piercing guns; the rebels do not have conventional antitank weapons. With only homemade weaponry and local generosity to rely upon, it was uncertain how long the insurgency could hold out against Moscow's 80,000 well-armed troops...
...succeeding years have stripped away the silver-plated armor of Massachusetts voters, leaving only their tough Democratic nature exposed--and even that may be losing some of its sheen. In 1976, a cocky Jimmy Carter gathered a meager 14 per cent in a heavy snowstorm to finish behind Henry Jackson, George Wallace, and Mo Udall. Two years later, liberal Governor Michael S. Dukakis, who now teaches public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, lost in the gubernatorial primary to old-style Democrat Edward J. King. A Kennedy drubbing would deligh King, who beat liberal Republican Frank Hatch and took...
...Those who remained under sustained and unremitting fire could partially armor themselves with the apathy of the half-dead; but those who had to come and go . . . those were the ones who paid the heaviest price...