Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kabul Airport is a massive Soviet military base. Tanks guard key city intersections. Cannons are trained on the main bazaar. Armored personnel carriers rumble through the streets. Heavily armed soldiers guard all public buildings. A curfew begins at 10 p.m., but the streets are empty between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. It is forbidden for more than four people to assemble without permission in a public place...
...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 in a two-pronged move by the Soviets across the Pul-i-Hesti bridge over the Kabul River. Thousands of protesters were trapped...
...heavyweights: Women's Wear Daily (Publisher John Fairchild, Associate Editor Carolyn Gottfried, European Fashion Writer Marian McEvoy), the New York Times (Morris, Carrie Donovan of the Sunday Magazine), the Washington Post (Hyde), the International Herald Tribune (Hebe Dorsey), Vogue (Fashion Editor Polly Mellen) and Harper's Bazaar (Fashion Editor Gloria Moncur). In their hearts they know that however expert they are at fashion journalism, their heft and influence derive primarily from the importance of their publications. Opposite them were the most influential Europeans. Said Dorsey, a veteran hemline watcher: "If I'm not in the front...
...strike. A European businessman told me that his cook lost two members of his family in shooting incidents. A friend of his lost a close relative and saw an uncle wounded. Nearly everyone also has kin in either the police or army. Many of the injured in the old bazaar, where some of the most vicious fighting went on, literally bled to death from leg wounds; their Afghan soldier brothers had aimed low in order to maim rather than kill. In the northwest part of the city, a group of protesters wielding sticks and captured guns marched on the Kharga...
What were the conflicting Iranian statements supposed to mean? To some observers, they were an example of skillful psychological warfare aimed at wearing down Washington's resolve. Other experts contended that the Iranians were merely behaving like rug merchants in a classic Persian bazaar, demanding the maximum but willing to settle for quite a bit less...