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...dawn of a new decade is traditionally a time when Americans look ahead with optimism, but today they feel deep fears about rising prices, fuel shortages and even the possibility of a major war. Instead of blaming their current leader for the dark clouds that have gathered, however, they have rallied round him in overwhelming numbers. By huge margins, they support President Carter's responses to the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. They do not want his foreign policy criticized, and they heavily favor him over any other presidential candidate in either party...
...time for a touch of reticence. Coercion cannot produce such attitudes, but the mood of the time may. Americans may find themselves agreeing in some paraphrase of Elihu Root when he walked through a squalid Siberian village as Woodrow Wilson's emissary in the first Soviet revolutionary dawn. "I'm a firm his in democracy," he said, as he skeptically eyed his surroundings. "But I do not like filth...
Subdued by the first blizzard of winter, Kabul was regaining a semblance of normality. Soviet convoys no longer growled through the narrow streets at dawn. Curio shops on Chicken Street reopened for business. The capital's telephones were functioning once more, and cross-country buses were running again. But the city was not the same. Soviet officers and political cadres were virtually in charge of the Defense and Interior ministries. Most large police stations now had live-in Soviet advisers. Just outside the city limits more than 16,000 Soviet soldiers continued...
...building. The elite paratroops who alight do not doze or socialize like the less disciplined Afghans from whom they assume command. Dressed in fur hats, bulky greatcoats and elephantine boots, they stand alert in the shadows waiting for the armored personnel carriers to pick them up again just before dawn...
...under the protection of King Khalid. The raiders appeared to have mixed religious and political motives: they seemingly were armed and trained in Marxist South Yemen, but were fundamentalists opposed to all modernism, led by a zealot who had proclaimed the revolution in Iran to be a "new dawn" for Islam. It took the Saudi army more than a week to root them out from the catacomb-like basements of the mosque, and 156 died in the fighting?82 raiders and 74 Saudi troopers. In addition, demonstrators waving Khomeini's picture last month paraded in the oil towns of Saudi...