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...America is Sowell's chronicle of the peopling of America, a tale that has found as many different ways of telling as there are historians to tell it. High school text-books indoctrinate young students of our culture with the vision of the land of opportunity and the open frontier. Only recently have these hymns to the courage and resilience of hard-working people been toned down to accommodate the revisionist critique of American social history. In this perception, immigrant workers became prey for the big, bad industrialists who stilted the country's public education system and other institutions...
TIME'S Bangkok correspondent David DeVoss found an equally thriving market in Dara Adam Khail, a mud-splattered tribal settlement in Pakistan's North-West Frontier. Visiting in the early days of January 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, DeVoss asked the most venerable gunsmith in Dara for a "beginner's weapon." From beneath a pile of Sten guns, the man unearthed what DeVoss thought was a ballpoint pen. But the pen could accommodate a .25-cal. slug that would kill at close range...
Afghanistan is now pressing for negotiations with Pakistan to seal the rugged 1,125-mile frontier against the influx of aid to the rebels, holding out the possibility of a Soviet withdrawal if the condition is met. Questioned on whether there were any conceivable circumstances in which his government might participate in talks with the rebels, Dost answered, "Categorically no. After all, they [the mujahedin] represent no one but themselves...
Four hours later, Guillaume was driven across the frontier into East Germany in an American-made camper, closely followed by a beige Mercedes. The small convoy dropped its passenger, then quickly returned to the West German border. The release of Guillaume marked the beginning of the largest known spy-swapping operation between East and West since World...
...Circle Repertory Theatre, is a near- newcomer to cinema. Earthy and sensible, heavy sleeves rolled up to heavy elbows, her Elinore can plow a field and scrub the laundry and milk a cow; she knows how to ride and she plans to learn how to rope. She is a frontier woman, pure and simple; she understands the various businesses of life and how to get on with them...