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John Dineen wandered Hemenway's wooden-floored corridor, shuffling aimless circles between lingering spectators, parents and once-annually squash groupies. Charlie Duffy, one of three seniors on the team, left the building to sit in the cold outside the door and talk of anything but squash with a non-squash friend. On the top echelon of Hemenway's ziggurst grandstands Jim Lubowitz simply sat, head bowed to the floor, hands on his face trying to wipe out the match's final result...
...northern Pakistan, a tribe of Kirghiz mountaineers ekes out a precarious existence. It is a strange land to them, and they are among strange people. This tribe of about 280 families--over 1000 people--left their homes in the towering Pamir mountains, to the north in Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor, after Soviet troops invaded in December, 1979. Fighting hit-and-run battles against the better-equipped Russians, they soon had to sell their livestock and slip over the border into Pakistan. Now they want to come to America--possibly Alaska--and settle permanently...
...return to Afghanistan. During the past 50 years, the Kirghiz have fled from the Communists twice: first from Soviet Kirghizistan to Xinjiang--Chinese Turkestan, whence they fled to Afghanistan at the time of the Communist take-over in China. The Soviets, according to Dupree, have annexed the entire Wakhan Corridor, the sprit of land jutting off to the northeast of Afghanistan, where they are busy building roads to consolidate their claim to the area...
...conference's most rousing episode was a march down a corridor of the Sheraton Washington Hotel led by Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper, 81, of Florida to the doors of the Economics Committee, which was considering recommendations for revising the Social Security system. While Pepper stepped aside to negotiate a compromise, hundred of supporters stayed to chant and sing We Shall Overcome. The compromise was as inconclusive as much of the rest of the conference: it opposed any reduction in current Social Security benefits, but failed to define whether a change in the complicated formulas would constitute a reduction...
...periodic eruptions of Secretary of State Alexander Haig against back-corridor White House grousing over his performance are, if nothing else, enervating and diverting. Budget Chief David Stockman's unusual excursion into journalistic confession raises a credibility cloud that may be no bigger than a man's hand but capable of yielding acid rain...