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...mujahedin spokesman in Pakistan claimed that the attackers blew up ammunition dumps, aviation-fuel tanks, barracks where Soviet flight crews and traffic controllers slept, and water tanks, crucial in drought-stricken Kabul. One Western military analyst observed that the raid showed both that "the iron discipline of the mujahedin has not been broken" and that the CIA weapons pipeline to the rebels is improving. MALAYSIA Where Dadah Means Death...
...three-game series Giambi and Jeter got hit a collective five times by Sox pitching, and that Jeter visited the hospital (after a clearly unintentional conk on the head by Timlin)? Sure-that's very important. It will echo, down the line. And is it important that Mariano blew two more saves, getting a win and a loss, for four blown in his last four ops and six in his last 11 against the Sox? That's really important...
...exorcising of the Med. Fac. Society appears to have been successful, but its tradition of pranks continued. In 1936 a group of freshmen attempted to blow up Memorial Hall with a homemade bomb, and later that year a group of revivalists blew up a well in front of Hollis Hall...
Grind means to weep for the hard times of 1933, encompassing everything from segregation and the Depression to the woes of a refugee Irish terrorist. The terrorist sings not one but two songs about how he blew up a train on which, unknown to him, his wife and son were passengers; this is by no means the unlikeliest coincidence in which he is involved. An aging comedian whose sight is failing wanders into a backdrop (he has also somehow lost his sense of direction) and, fearing the loss of his job, shoots himself. Apparently neither he nor anyone else...
...congressional budget negotiators was unusually tense. The legislators, brought together to work out a compromise, traded charges of stubbornness and irresponsibility. Republicans were dismayed when Reagan caved in to Democratic pressure and rescinded their hard-won limits on Social Security increases. The President, usually a model of affability, blew up when the subject of taxes arose. "Damn it," he cried, slamming down his pencil, "I can't listen to all this." In the midst of the imbroglio sat one remarkably serene and smiling figure: David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the straight-shooting point...