Word: disarrays
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...handicapped by primitive tactics, poor weapons and the inability of rival guerrilla factions to form a common front. In the analysis of one U.S. official, the biggest danger facing Moscow in Afghanistan may be political rather than military: "The Communist regime they installed is weaker, less popular, more in disarray [than ever]. Its original slim support is eroding. The Soviets are in danger of losing their puppet regime...
...Passage to India and the works of Paul Bowles and Graham Greene. Conflicting cultures are perhaps less Playwright Whitehead's concern than conflicted lives. All but one of the six Britons who have come to Morocco for a holiday are in perturbed states of sexual disarray, which they tend to cloak in mocking humor and racy banter...
...Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Planes from the GDR have flown medicine and other supplies to Kabul, and have started to return to East Berlin a number of Afghan wounded. East Germany is reportedly helping the Kabul government revamp and upgrade its secret police apparatus, which has been in disarray since the December invasion. East Germany's assistance to Viet Nam dates back to the 1960s, and has multiplied ever since. Annual aid to Hanoi now totals tens of millions. East German assistance has also extended to Hanoi's client regime in Cambodia. Last month President Heng Samrin flew...
...Home Loan Bank Board has revealed that during the second half of last year, 266 of the nation's 4,100 savings and loans and other thrift institutions lost money. Wall Street analysts say that at least 20% of them are now operating in the red. Amid this disarray, the Government is quickly changing the nation's banking statutes. President Carter last week signed a new law phasing out interest ceilings on passbook accounts (now 5¼% for banks and 5½% for thrift institutions) and permitting banks everywhere to pay interest on checking accounts, a practice already...
Kennedy's Pennsylvania campaign seemed to be in considerable disarray. Not a single major elected official has publicly supported him, in contrast to the avalanche of endorsements for Carter, who has methodically phoned most of the state's Democratic leaders for chats about politics, usually at their homes on Sundays. Said a top Pennsylvania Democrat: "He may not know much about running the economy, but he is damn good at running a campaign...