Word: dara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tower residents complained about the cold, but most added that they are accustomed to chilly temperatures. "It's been cold in here all year. I don't think I'm going to feel the difference," Dara F. Raspberry '92 said yesterday afternoon...
UConn scored again early in the second half off a short corner blast from the top of the circle by Dara Fuchs...
...Dara A. Charney Graphics Editor...
TIME'S Bangkok correspondent David DeVoss found an equally thriving market in Dara Adam Khail, a mud-splattered tribal settlement in Pakistan's North-West Frontier. Visiting in the early days of January 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, DeVoss asked the most venerable gunsmith in Dara for a "beginner's weapon." From beneath a pile of Sten guns, the man unearthed what DeVoss thought was a ballpoint pen. But the pen could accommodate a .25-cal. slug that would kill at close range...
During the past year of unrest, the number of Afghan refugees camped on the Pakistani side of the border has soared from 13,000 to about 400,000. Last week TIME Correspondent David DeVoss visited the village of Dara Adam Khail, which lies to the south of the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Dara has long been famous for its handmade rifles, mortars and land mines, and the insurgency in Afghanistan has turned the place into a boomtown. Reports DeVoss: "Mud-hut arms factories are busy 24 hours a day. A handcrafted Kalashnikov rifle sells for $1,700. For just under...