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...battlefield at Kunar, the once dreaded Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships were taken almost entirely out of the fighting by the Stingers. They flew only a few sorties under cover of night, when Stingers are difficult to aim. Said mujahedin Leader Massood Khalili of the helicopters' decline: "For nine years the dragon ruled the skies over Afghanistan. Now the dragon is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Show 'Em the Way To Go Home | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...they are going to have a concert in Bright, they might as well have decent concert conditions without barriers that distort the sound," said Adam F. Carpenter '90, whose seat is located be hind the plexiglass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plexiglass to Stay for Costello | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...When the mind is troubled, the body is troubled," Ray says over and over. Now he ropes the colt's back foot, and another fight ensues. When the colt leans away from the rope, his hind leg is suspended in air. "There's a change," Ray says and lets the lariat go loose. Belatedly, we see that the colt's neck and shoulder have relaxed. "I try to make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard," Ray explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wyoming: Horse and Rider Learn Together | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...town in the department of Esteli, about 60 miles from the Honduran border. Comandante (Colonel) Javier Carrion, 31, the commander of the northern military zone, rushed one counterinsurgency battalion, or BLI, plus local troops to the town and called in air support from three Soviet-built Mi-24 Hind helicopters, the gunships equipped with machine guns and rockets that are being used by the Soviets in Afghanistan. The contras retreated and have not mounted a major assault since. A senior U.S. official in Washington conceded two weeks ago that the Sandinista counteroffensive had pushed 5,000 of the insurgents back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua the Sandinistas Hang Tough | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...siege of Richmond that Grant was a mere "butcher," and most of the North agreed. But he was a far better soldier than that. He could march strategies across a landscape the way a cat can walk across a dressing table laden with perfume bottles, never looking at his hind legs and never spilling a drop. That is too delicate an image, maybe. Grant spilled a generation or so of blood. Still, he could move armies the way the cat moves its feet, on true instinct, completely self-possessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Who Is Buried in Grant's Tomb? | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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