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...three months the rumors had swept through Tehran: Soviet officers and Cuban troops were helping to patrol Iran's frontier with Pakistan to halt the flight of dissident Iranians. At the same time, well-informed members of Iran's Islamic Guards confided that the Soviet Union had established an intelligence-gathering network in the southeastern region of Iran that focused on neighboring Pakistan. Tehran's growing rapprochement with Moscow gave credence to the reports. The Soviets have been supplying Iran with arms for its war with Iraq, while KGB experts have been helping Iran's Islamic...
...airlines are in trouble. Piedmont, which flies mainly in the mid-Atlantic states, doubled its earnings to $32 million in 1981. The income of Denver-based Frontier Airlines was up 38% last year, to $31.9 million. Ozark earned $17 million in 1981, its first profit in three years...
...poll that does not include Houston in the Top Ten desirable places to live is worthless [Jan. 11]. Houston is the only city in the U.S. where the frontier spirit and the American Dream still reign supreme...
...still recommend the remedies of 1932 for the problems of 1982. That is an implausible prospect. Though Roosevelt might not have favored the swollen growth of Government intervention, regulation and spending, it seems likely that if he could return to survey the results of the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society, he would bestow on them that famous smile of satisfaction...
...great-great grandfather James McLean Bell, called by other settlers of Pikeville, Kentucky "Jaybird" because he was always jabbering about some wrongness the world had done to him, and some wrongness was always being done, it seemed, in that east Kentucky town, in 1840 no longer the frontier but still a place where a man could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroquois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hootch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would...