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...armed infantrymen, who had been patrolling only at night, stood guard around government buildings during the day. According to the martial-law decree, all residents of Kabul were ordered to surrender firearms to the police within 24 hours; violators would be taken before "military-revolutionary" courts. A TASS dispatch from Kabul explained that the Interior Ministry had ordered the martial law and curfew in response to "plunder and arson" by Muslim insurgents and what it called "foreign agents, mercenaries and stooges...
...leaves no place for warmth. Black gauze hangs menacingly. The Lincoln rests like a hearse--Lear's castle--upstage center. Its grille grins, its headlights stare. Seven stars, like seven gods, watch from the rafters. Lear emerges from the automobile, masked in sunglasses, master of his court, eager to dispatch the richest third of his Kingdom to his youngest daughter Cordelia. But Cordelia refuses to flatter her father and the play commences, careening out of control...
...American movement arose in 1935 to persuade U.S. athletes to boycott the Berlin Olympics. It lost. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said at the time, it would be unfortunate if the Olympics were "dragged into the arena of political, racial or religious policy." That line is repeated almost exactly in 1980; it is no more valid now than...
...troops to overthrow his own government and eventually kill him? I find that hard to believe." Pakistan's Agha Shahi, who flew in to co-sponsor the anti-Soviet resolution, was more blunt: "A nonexistent threat of an invasion [is] obviously being advanced to justify the large-scale dispatch of Soviet troops into Afghanistan...
...addition, the official Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday in a dispatch from Kabul that an American Roman Catholic mission in the capital had been functioning as an "underground center" for recruiting "counter-revolutionary agents" to circulate "subversive literature. "Tass said the mission was part of the American cultural center run by the U.S. Embassy...