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Eden Naby, an associate with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, returned last week from a five-day foray into Afghanistan where she accompanied CBS correspondent Dan Rather and his three-man crew as an interpreter and consultant...
Senior Writer George Church's first foray into the world of economic journalism was a 1954 story for the Wall Street Journal about a revolutionary trend in packaging orange juice: cardboard containers, like those used for milk. The idea caught on and so, quite clearly, did Church. He rose to become a front-page editor at the Journal, joined TIME as a business writer in 1969, and served for four years as the editor of the Economy & Business section. Since moving to the Nation section early last year, Church has proved himself to be one of the magazine...
...rarely elsewhere: severe pain in his lower back. Kennedy crushed three vertebrae in the crash of a small plane in 1964. Since his recovery, he has suffered periodically from back trouble-much as his brother John did in his rocking chair in the White House. On one extended foray, the Senator flinched visibly every time he clambered out of the eight-seat Piper Chieftain that took him from New York City to his stops in three New England states. In Northampton, Mass., from zealous Secret Service agents kept local TV newsmen too far from the plane to film Kennedy...
Weaknesses that plagued the team throughout the season surfaced during the Crimson's opening 2-7 foray. The five freshmen Kleinfelder elevated to the big time all displayed style, but they often ran set plays, forcing passes through a jammed key instead of taking the reasonable 10-ft. jumper...
...Marx and Engels in order to reach negative conclusions about any Soviet moves, straining to ignore any defensive motives they may have. Soviet troops never waged war beyond their borders without a rational defensive purpose--which is not, of course, to imply a moral right--until their Afghanistan foray; therefore it would be logical to inquire whether some defensive purpose might not be involved here too. Frequent American outcries for military action to protect Persian Gulf oil, heard since 1973 and escalated with the hostage crisis, might constitute the real impetus for this ostensible aggression. Even if not, U.S. aggressive...