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...city is fairly overrun with security men, including the regular militsia in their gray uniforms and the forbidding KGB in their trademark baggy business suits. The Olympic areas are also patrolled by soldiers, some carrying Kalashnikov automatic rifles. Scores of dissidents have been arrested or exiled, while others have been ordered to take vacations outside the capital. Late last week Moscow officials virtually sealed off the city; no trucks or cars are allowed to enter without a pass certifying urgent business, such as food delivery...
...military training seriously. TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, visiting the Rashidieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, found 16 boys between the ages of eight and 16 engaged in a sort of small-arms training. Wrote Stewart: "They marched across a tiny parade ground, presented arms with mock Kalashnikov rifles and offered an openhanded salute. In unison, they broke into Biladi, Biladi (My Country, My Country), a patriotic song. The scene is repeated every day in this windswept corner of Rashidieh and in every camp in Lebanon. Ahmed Abu Karim, who teaches karate, says: 'We train them...
...battery cavity of each was being used as a repository for prayer beads. Inadequate weaponry and supply does not seem to affect the fighting spirit. "It is all in a man's thinking," explains Guerrilla Leader Chandra Khan. "You look in that corner and see 'only three Kalashnikov rifles.' I see three Kalashnikovs and three dead Russians...
Apart from safety, the biggest problem facing Ugandans is finding enough to eat. The food shortage is most acute in the rural northeast, where U.N. officials estimate that 136,000 people are on the verge of starvation. Savage Karamojong tribesmen, armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles looted from one of Amin's arsenals, raid villages and harass the missionary outposts where relief food and medicine are distributed. Famine may eventually hit Kampala, where many workers earn 500 shillings ($68) or less a month, barely enough to purchase three bunches of green bananas, the staple of the diet. Complains a Kampala...
...results of the violent anti-Communist convulsion that swept the city were apparent in Kabul, cabled TIME'S Pearl Marshall, one of the few Western correspondents who managed to move freely in the capital. "Soviet infantrymen with Kalashnikov automatic rifles stand guard near the door of the Inter-Continental Hotel, where most Western journalists have been confined. Soviet tanks are still deployed near public buildings and key intersections. Other armored vehicles have effectively divided the city in two by blocking the bridges across the Kabul River. It is an apparent attempt to thwart any renewed threats of attack against...