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...ferocity of Afghan resistance to Soviet rule was shown in a remarkable pictorial report of a rebel ambush-and the subsequent execution of a hapless Soviet prisoner-that appeared last week in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Richard Ben Cramer, a staff reporter for the Inquirer, and Italian Photographer Salvatore Vitale spent eight days accompanying Muslim rebel units in the mountains near the Pakistan border. They were witnesses when a rebel patrol spotted a Soviet vehicle traveling cautiously through a gully, raked it with automatic weapons fire and killed the driver. His passenger, a lieutenant in his late 20s, was taken prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Deeper into the Quagmire | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...mocked. None of the dynamic exaltation of the Who and their fans for the Pinkies. To Waters, the audience is just another barrier, another obstacle to his exquisitely indelicate communion with his inner being. "So ya/ Thought ya/ Might like to go to the show," he sneers at some hapless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pinkies on the Wing | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...hapless Big Red simply could not recover from their sluggish first half and gaped while the hoopsters ran circles around them, grabbed a total of 20 steals, and riddled the Cornell zone defense with bullet-like drives to the basket...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Women Cagers Win Again, Whitewash Cornell, 74-47 | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

...fact, all of the "hapless and much maligned" Crimson breaststrokers more than held their own yesterday against B.U. opposition. Gwen Knapp placed eighth and Caroline Adams ninth in the 50, and Harvard competitors grabbed fifth, sixth and tenth in the 100-yd. event...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Aquawomen Swamp Terriers, Grab First GBC Crown Ever | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

...where, oh where can that winning touch be? Luck deserted the hapless women hoopsters again last night in Providence as the Brown Bruins prevailed...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Bruins Beat Out Women Cagers, 67-61; Poor Foul Shooting Proves the Key | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

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