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Will the hostages then be freed? A fortnight ago, officials in both Washington and New York seemed confident that the release was part of a package deal, definitely linked to the formation of the U.N. commission. The only uncertainty, it seemed, was whether the release would come when the U.N. commission was formed or after it finished its work. Iran's new President, Abolhassan Banisadr, appeared to have agreed to such a deal; but when he was asked to say so in writing, he denied that there was any connection at all between the U.N. hearings and the release...
...squad could find itself facing off against the Soviets. At 2:30-5 p.m., the finals of the four-man bobsled pair the world's best racers and the world's fastest, toughest course in duels of icy nerve at speeds of up to 95 m.p.h. A fortnight of competition concludes (7 p.m.-10:30 p.m.) with ceremonies marking the end of the 13th Winter Olympiad...
...question of who has or has not suported the proposed international investigatory commission on the deposed Shah that Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr has said would facilitate the release of the 50 American hostages. But the two-day exchange demonstrated that both men are emphasizing their campaigns in the fortnight preceding the New Hampshire primary, neglecting clear discussions of foreign and domestic affairs...
...resolution was a far more stinging rebuff to the Soviet Union than the U.N. General Assembly's mildly worded statement, fortnight earlier, calling for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition, the Islamic summit, to which the Afghanistan government was invited but failed to attend, also managed to get the feuding Afghan rebel groups to form an ad hoc united front: the Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan. The front's spokesman, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former head of the faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University, told the conference that although Soviet troops controlled the main Afghan cities...
Medically, things are looking up for people on the Hill, a rough, largely unchanged slab of the California Sierras, dotted with gold-panners' shanties and crisscrossed by streams of flashing gold and speckled trout. Fortnight ago, for example, when Logger Bill Lingenfelter was pinned by a "widowmaker"-a tree falling in the wrong direction-his crew mates rushed him to Dr. John Rose. The "Doc" swiftly took 30 stitches in Lingenfelter's right leg and put splints...