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With much bravado, the Kabul government now contends that the seven-year- old mujahedin rebellion will fade away once its support from Pakistan and the U.S. ceases. Explained a Western diplomat in Kabul last week: "The Soviets are going to portray the Pakistanis as aggressive and to justify even more pressure on Islamabad." As part of its reconciliation drive, Kabul has downplayed the threat from the rebels and begun referring to them not as "counterrevolutionar ies" but as "opposition forces...
...coming, Percy insists through his hero, when people can choose to be less than themselves, through technology, or rediscover their spiritual amplitudes, for good or ill. To be fully conscious, even of the worst, seems preferable. Tom describes a sunfish caught in a local bayou: "The colors will fade in minutes, but for now the fish looks both perfectly alive yet metallic, handwrought in Byzantium and bejeweled beyond price, all the more amazing to have come perfect from the muck." An engineered life would leave no room or tolerance for such perceptions...
...text, "tenth month, day kuei-hai, a guest star appeared within nanmen. It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated. It gradually became smaller and disappeared in the sixth month of the year after next." The description, especially concerning the brightness and slow fade of the star, seems to confirm the appearance of a supernova...
...stock spurted 3 7/8 points, to 79 1/2, before falling back a bit to finish the week at 77 7/ 8. The decision also sparked a general stock market rally, which sent the Dow Jones industrial average up 53.71 points to a record 2280.23. But the euphoria will soon fade unless GM revs up its sputtering business. Its car and truck sales so far in 1987 are down 28.4% from the same period a year...
Call it poor lab safety techniques, call it contaminated chemicals, call it what you will, but last night Dewitt was working on the unsalvageable 1970 film l, Monster when the decinemadroxylase began to fibrilate--the rushes began to fade--everything was going black--Dewitt knew he was in trouble...