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...short, the KGB was pointing to a danger that Amin-if he could ride the tiger of Muslim insurgency and come out on top as the leader of an Islamic Afghanistan-not only would turn to the West but would also expel the Soviet Union-lock, stock and barrel-from Afghanistan. On political grounds, the KGB argued, it would be better, even at this late hour, to put Karmal in as President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Coups and Killings in Kabul | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Helms has so angered other senators and congressmen with his scornful brand of confrontational politics that in 1981--despite his leadership of the Agricultural Committee--Helms had to rely on the Senate's Republican leadership to win that traditional North Carolina constituent service, pork barrel tobacco price supports. And his opposition to the appointment of several moderates to high State Department posts had little more than a symbolic impact...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Knocking Off the New Right | 11/19/1982 | See Source »

...racial arrogance, but of fact. For centuries, the only other walking mammals that most polar natives met used four legs or flippers. The Inuit were built like nature's thermos bottles, with short arms and legs, and small hands and feet that conserved heat stoked in barrel-like torsos. They ate seal meat and blubber, wiped the grease from their lips with partridge wings and talked mostly of hunting and sled dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sahara of Ice | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...barrel has been with me some 20 years, but I haven't quite hit the bottom." Should he ever do so, he comforts himself with the thought that he could, a la Bech, "scratch along without writing another word. The literary world is thriving. There are a lot of people out there who want to look at a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perennial Promises Kept | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait and monkeys. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's notorious pork-barrel project, the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor, was voted continued funding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expensive Bills | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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