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Commercial air traffic, what little is still operating, moves in and out of Kabul airport normally, but the Soviet Ilyushin and Antonov military transports that use the same runway bank sharply after takeoff and climb to a safe altitude in a tight spiral. There is rising concern that rebels armed with hand-held SA-7 antiaircraft missiles may be hiding in the hills around the capital...
Monday hardly brought a break in the weather, as intermittent showers and low temperatures plagued the golfers throughout the day. Although Nastala slipped to a 91. Lowenstein was able to climb up to a respectable 78, a score he speculated would place him among the top 30 or 40 finishers...
...plays is one of those great American heroes who has it both ways. He is both perfect model and one of the guys. He is the leader of the group, but also a man apart, emotionally cryptic. He walks a narrower road than his buddies; we see him gracefully climb a mountain above their heads and, with snowcapped peak behind him, a male choir singing, and rain clouds swirling, stalk a buck and drop it with one shot. Then they're back in the bar listening to Chopin, his Teutonic supremacy affirmed. He relaxes with the guys...
...Tokyo Stock Exchange rebounded as breathlessly as it had earlier slumped and had its best day in history; the Nikkei-Dow Jones shot up 321 points. In London, institutional investors bought heavily and lifted the Financial Times's industrial ordinary index 24.3 points by midmorning, a record climb...
...Rich and Famous, based on a famous "woman's picture," has not changed its thesis, however oddly it sometimes characterizes its leading ladies. What was implicit in the old film, namely that men are no good, is now painfully explicit. The husband Bergen sheds, once she begins her climb, is basically a nerd. The man Bisset finally decides might be all right-he is, in the current fashion, younger than she is and without a traditionally masculine brain wave-dumps her for her friend's daughter. The conviction of its stars, however carries one past this dreary consistency...