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Other Soviet units moved east from conquered Kabul toward the Khyber Pass and into Paktia province, a center of the Muslim insurgence. The Soviet command post is at Termez, where they have built a satellite communications station to give them a direct link to Moscow. The Soviets now have two airborne divisions and two motorized infantry divisions in Afghanistan, plus support troops, to bring their total strength...
...Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder and typewriter and produced books to cash in on the scandal. A headlong rush to excess profits was joined in the '70s by oil companies, sports stars negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts and writers whose most meretricious junk could command seven-figure advances...
...next day, however, diehard supporters of Amin resumed the fighting in Kabul. The coup, scoffed the rebel command, represented nothing more than "a change in pawns." The Japanese embassy said that gunfire could still be heard along the road leading from the Soviet embassy to the old royal palace. Nonetheless, as soon as word reached Moscow that the coup was successful, the Soviets quickly broadcast Karmal's denunciation of the Amin dictatorship as an agent of "American imperialism...
While the American carmakers still sell more small autos in the U.S. than foreign manufacturers do, they command only 63% of this market, which now accounts for more than half of all cars sold and is growing fast. The top-selling small models are still U.S. products: the Ford Fairmont and the Chevrolet Citation among the compacts, and the Chevette and Chrysler's Omnis and Horizons among the subcompacts. But the third and fourth bestsellers in the subcompact category are the Toyota Corolla and the Datsun...
...presidency was on General Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s mind last June when he relinquished his NATO command and retired from the Army. But the onetime chief of staff of the Nixon White House soon discovered that he had no constituency to return him to Pennsylvania Avenue on his own. Last week Haig, 55, settled for a leadership role of a different sort: president and chief operating officer of United Technologies Corp., a Connecticut-based company that manufactures everything from air conditioners and escalators to jet engines and helicopters. He will earn roughly twice the $200,000 a year...