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...nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...
...Wells. Anthropologist Fairservis doubts the theory. He found that the city got its water not from.distant mountains but from many now dry wells, 60 feet deep, inside the walls. He thinks that a river changed its course, lowering the water table and making the city uninhabitable...
...months, Reporter Guthman gathered additional evidence that Rader was telling the truth. He found an optician's record to prove that Rader had broken his glasses at the Washington resort, a University of Washington library card showing he had withdrawn books in Seattle during the time he had supposedly been 3,000 miles away, and a Seattle voting record...
There, he asked to see the 1938 guest register. It was missing ; it had been "borrowed" by Canwell committee investigators and never returned. But Guthman found an ex-housekeeper who clearly recalled the 1938 visit and added a corroborating detail: Mrs. Rader was pregnant...
...after Soviet Press Chief Georgi Pavlevich Frantsev promised that there would be no trouble getting a re-entry permit. (Until the regulations were changed last spring, such a permit had been automatically issued with the exit visa.) But when Newman tried to return to Moscow three months ago, he found the door shut. Last week the Herald Tribune reluctantly announced the closing of its vacant Russian office. That left just five U.S. correspondents in Moscow,* about half the number that was there when Reporter Newman arrived...