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Carter correctly predicts that the longterm pay-off from his support will be tremendous: "We benefit today, in new industries, in millions of jobs, in lives saved and in lives protected--from the investments in science made decades ago." Jimmy Carter has planted a scientific tree that will bear fruit for many years...
...could possibly need," a swarthy, French-speaking 2nd lieutenant from Uzbekistan cheerily assured TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, outside his billet. His men were all delighted to be in Afghanistan, he said, mostly because of the perks. "This is a poor country so the only thing we purchase locally is fruit," he said with a smile. "We've brought everything else from the Soviet Union-in our cook tents it's just like eating at home." Best of all, he said, was the special combat pay: 180 rubles on top of his regular 200-ruble monthly salary...
...Olympian god," the book says, treating his former subordinates with condescension, electing to dine in regal solitude. For a time, he kept up a correspondence with some of his former girl friends. That did not, however, stop his wife from trying to smuggle him a ration of cognac in fruit-juice cans. It was he who persuaded the authorities to install wiring for air conditioners and other appliances in the cells, which are likened to comfortable studio apartments...
...strategic arms sabre rattling or to expand dramatically the U.S. military establishment; neither foreign policy gains nor military advantage can be garnered in this way. However, cooperation on such matters as SALT is essential and should continue, but detente as a whole becomes a dead letter if the fruit of the policy is such actions as the Afghanistan invasion. Similarly, direct U.S. military intervention is wholly inappropriate; the U.S. must preserve the distinction between itself and the U.S.S.R. and avoid the use of its own military forces to destroy a nation...
...fruit of 15 weeks of painstaking negotiations at the stately Lancaster House in London, the accord carried with it the Front's previous acceptance of a majority-rule constitution and parliamentary elections. It thus appeared to pave the way for the peaceful creation of an independent republic of Zimbabwe by early next spring, as the British plan envisages. More immediately, it called for all combatants to lay down their arms within two weeks and for thousands of exiled guerrillas to return to Rhodesia, outlaws no longer. Declared a smiling Nkomo with some emotion: "We are going home...