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Afghanistan. Since September the pro-Soviet regime of President Noor Mohammed Taraki has been caught up in a bitter civil war; Moscow has charged???and Washington has angrily denied?that the U.S. instigated the rebellion. Some of the insurgents are inspired by tribal animosities, others by political opposition to the government's leftist ways. According to one U.S. expert in the area, "Islam has proved to be the major unifying theme for the rebels." Many of them have moved to armed camps in Pakistan. Taraki has tried to highlight his own credentials as a good Muslim; recently the government publicized...
Thus the atmosphere was already charged???and the Nixon Administration had for years been using the press as a scapegoat?when reporters began investigating the five bunglers who burglarized the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. That crime detonated the nation's greatest scandal and journalism's longest-running political story. Yet the tocsin sounded initially by the overwhelming majority of news organizations was neither sullen nor loud...
...regular prices. Small boys charged apartment dwellers 100 a floor to lead them up murky stairways. Worst of all were the cabbies, who seemed intent on making enough to retire the very next day. Many hackies charged???and got?up to $50 for a $15 ride...
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