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Fragments of evidence -- secret payments, cryptic cables, visits from high Iranian officials -- indicate that Khomeini's regime may be in close touch with the terrorists, if not managing them. The camps enjoy at least the tacit support of Syria as well, since the Bekaa Valley is controlled by Damascus. In a remarkably candid speech last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad conceded that Syria was in contact with extremist groups who are holding seven Americans, four Frenchmen and one Briton, seized over the past 18 months. Assad mildly rebuked the kidnapers for violating a "code of honor between combatants," but praised...
...superb Andre Kertesz exhibition currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago is that rare thing, an art world vindication that the artist is around to enjoy. When Kertesz arrived in the U.S. in 1936, he was 42. He had behind him a celebrated body of work in photography. During eleven years in France, and before that in his native Hungary, he had perfected one of the camera's fundamental charms, its ability to fix those brief entanglements of form and event that escape the eye. Netting perishable moments in a deft geometry, he practiced photography...
...early last week, about 53 Soviet soldiers had been killed in the campaign. The rebels have suffered significant casualties. As many as 30,000 Soviet troops may be involved in the operation, which, according to the rebels, appears not to involve any Afghan army units. In addition, the Soviets enjoy overwhelmingly superior firepower. Said Majrooh: "The resistance has nothing to hit back with against something like this." There is some concern in Pakistan that the Soviet forces will be tempted to pursue fleeing Afghan rebels over the Pakistani border. Late last week Pakistan issued a strong protest to Afghanistan, accusing...
Huang, who plans to return to China when he finishes his studies, feels grateful for the new freedoms he and some other students enjoy. "The less they restrict us, the more I love my country," he adds. Huang will enter the Harvard's graduate program in Government next year, after which he plans either a diplomatic or academic career...
Last fall, Doyle says, "I was just gonna be a socialite. I wasn't gonna play volleyball, I was just gonna enjoy myself." But to his own surprise, he found he could once again enjoy himself on the volleyball court...