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...number 12,000 in the six northern counties, the lowest number in a decade. More noticeably, they are moving out of some conspicuous, long-embattled urban positions, where relative calm has returned. This month a 100-strong company of Scots Guards pulled out of Glassmullin, a 240-sq.-yd. compound in the middle of west Belfast's once stormy Andersons-town suburb. Once the area was a cockpit of I.R.A. activity. Now, says a young Catholic resident, "life is much more peaceful...
Brandishing his AK-47 assault rifle, a 21-year-old Soviet soldier alighted from a taxi at the gate of the U.S. embassy compound in Kabul one morning last week, and was met by an American official who took him inside. Then, speaking only Russian laced with a smattering of German, he managed to tell surprised embassy officers that he wanted to defect. It was the first such move by any of the estimated 85,000 Soviet military personnel who have occupied the country since last winter's invasion. Before long, the mysterious enlisted man had become the most...
...member staff of the Kabul embassy speaks either Russian or German and the would-be defector thus has not yet been fully interrogated. For their part, the Soviets insist that he is a common criminal escaping from military justice. They charge that he was lured into the compound...
...days later, the State Department had finally managed to get a Russian-speaking American official into Kabul to debrief the defector, though it released no details. The embassy, meanwhile, had come under a mini-siege. First, the phone communications were cut off. Then squads of Afghan troops surrounded the compound. The apparent campaign of harassment spread to other Western embassies, where diplomats were searched and followed as they came and went...
Wheaton, though short of Ph.D.s in some departments, is strong on dedicated teaching. The college excels in math and science. Among the faculty stars is Physicist Howard H. Claassen, part of the three-man team that synthesized a new chemical compound, xenon tetrafluoride, from an inert element. Other points of pride: study tours abroad (one aimed at combatting hunger) and a collection on the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers and other Christian writers...