Word: camelizing
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...naval clash in the now strategically critical Indian Ocean, where mighty armadas of the two superpowers warily stalk each other. So far, U.S. Navy Task Force 70 clearly rules the Indian Ocean's waves. Though the total number of ships fluctuates as vessels rotate in and out of Camel Station (as American sailors have nicknamed the area), the U.S. has had as many as 27 warships there simultaneously. More crucial than raw figures is the power of the U.S. force. On patrol last week were the super-carriers Nimitz (which recently replaced Kitty Hawk), Midway and Coral Sea, with...
...centuries Pakistan's North-West Frontier province capital of Peshawar has served as a trading and hitching post between the rising Himalayas to the north and the flat Asian subcontinent to the south. Camel caravans, Scythians, Alexander the Great's Macedonian legions, Mogul hordes, Britain's empire builders and even high-flying U.S. espionage planes have all, at one time or another, made use of Peshawar's strategic semidesert location at the base of the Khyber Pass. Today Peshawar, which is only 34 miles from the Afghan border, has become the principal bivouac and nerve center...
...least for the moment, the insurgents are on the run. Dozens of Afghan camel caravans crossed the border into Pakistan from Paktia province last week. Explained Alip Jon, 41: "There are too many tanks, and planes are always coming. For every one of us here, two or three are still fighting, but I fear Paktia is done for." Others talked as truculently as ever. Said Gul Amir, 36: "The Russians can't stay in Afghanistan. They are so alien that even the animals hate them...
...it?is his first or second spouse. Almost all Western translations of his basic prerevolutionary teachings are of doubtful authenticity or accuracy. In particular, a howlingly funny French translation of some of his remarks?dealing with, among other things, the proper attitude of Muslims toward the meat of a camel that has been sodomized?is composed of random pronouncements from a thick book, deliberately excerpted out of context to make the Ayatullah look ridiculous...
...said of the Azerbaijanis, the rugged mountain people who flourish in the northwestern tip of Iran, that they are like a camel-hard to rouse and get up onto their feet, but once up, hard to stop. So it is that their opposition to the Ayatullah Khomeini began as a protest, turned into a demonstration, then a revolt, and now a challenge to the theocratic regime that Khomeini has just imposed on the nation...