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...French Foreign Legion fort in Ati, a Scottish legionnaire checks travel documents. Of the twelve robed passengers in our truck, he asks, "Who are all those guys with spears? Are they O.K.?" Before an excellent lunch, served on fine linen, the local legion commander says, "A Goran soldier can go 48 hours without water and a week without food. That's more than our boys can do." That night at a military outpost in Oum-Hadjer, a civil servant observes, "This war started out with cavalry and scimitars. Now it is all Soviet rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and antitank...
...Journal did its own digging, under the direction of Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine. In an editorial titled "Dirty Linen," the Journalsaid that credibility is "our chief professional pride and one of our most important business assets . . . We are, of course, washing our dirty linen in public. This is precisely the action we have often recommended to others caught in embarrassing episodes...
...surprisingly, the Soviets rarely launder this dirty linen in public. Now a change seems to be in the air. The officially controlled press has acknowledged, in almost painful detail, an environmental calamity that seriously polluted one of the U.S.S.R.'s major rivers: the Dniester, which is a vital source of fresh water for the rich agricultural lands of the southwestern Ukraine and the small Moldavian Soviet Republic...
Most of the bleary-eyed passengers walked off the plane to stretch their legs and sip coffee in a holding area at the terminal. As they milled about, service crews vacuumed the 747's rugs, emptied ashtrays, placed clean linen on the backrests. Ground personnel pumped 37,750 gal. of Aiel into the plane's tanks, enough for its normal cruising range of about 6,000 miles. A fresh crew, led by Captain Chun Byung In, a veteran of 10,547 flying hours, took over in the cockpit. One fortunate family left Flight 007 in Anchorage. Robert Sears...
Expected price range: $50 to $150. Calvin Klein is offering a sleek and sexy new backless sundress ($190). For buyers wanting something a little more modest, Klein has oversize chambray linen shirt dresses ($290) that can be tied tight at the waist or left free to ripple in the wind...