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...leftist Khalq (People's) Party "considers Moscow his friend, benefactor and protector," as a senior State Department official puts it. Indeed, the pro-Soviet tilt of the new rulers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, is already stirring some recriminations in Washington. U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, an ardent hawk on the subject of Soviet expansionism, growled to a U.S. diplomat visiting from Kabul this summer: "You lost Afghanistan." Yet while Taraki has steered his country out of its traditional nonaligned path, he has leavened his pro-Moscow rhetoric with occasional mentions of a desire to maintain ties with...
...Committee to Protest the Return to Harvard of Professor Samuel Huntington presents an interesting case in misguided energy and effort. This Ad Hoc Committee feels that Huntington should not be allowed to return to this campus because of his role as a Vietnam War hawk in government...
...superfluous, for even on a normal day, the marketplace has the air of a modern Bartholomew Fair. Cabaret tunes from the piano bar commingle with bluegrass songs played by street musicians. The streets between the buildings, once choked with produce trucks, have been closed to traffic. Now pushcart vendors hawk their wares-scrimshaw knives and jewelry, puppets and pottery-while in the North and South Markets, scores of small shops offer highly specialized merchandise. Various stalls comprise an international bazaar of imported delicacies. In Quincy Market, the center hall, shoppers may sample raw oysters, yogurt cups...
...freak accidents. Like the Kansas City, Mo., runner who was knocked to his knees, and suffered puncture wounds and scratches on his head, when he was attacked by a bird with a white underbelly and a wingspan of 5 or 6 ft., presumably an eagle or a hawk...
...looking at them from over the airwaves, because spacious Fenway Park (the only American League park that doubles as a glove compartment in the off-season) is sure to be sold out. Saturday's and Sunday's games--both afternoon affairs--will come to you courtesy of Dick Stockton, Hawk Harrelson and the rest of the T.V. 38 crew, but the night games tonight and Monday are blacked out. Of course, you could get there early and gamble for bleacher seats, but only if you remember to bring along a pair of boxing gloves and an attack...