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...obscure tribe mentioned in ancient Greek chronicles. Others suspect that they are descendants of troops left behind by Alexander the Great on his invasion of India. The most intriguing theory is that their ancestors were the original Aryans, the prehistoric Indo-European people whose language and light skin linger on in the speech and appearance of modern Europeans. Fascinated by this possibility, Adolf Hitler in 1938 reportedly dispatched one of the Third Reich's racial experts on a personal survey of the Minaro region. It is said that Hitler even considered sending a number of blond German women...
...whatever doubts may linger within the group, the consensus of the stabilization committee, adds 71-year-old Geraigery, is that "the projected development for the East Cambridge Riverfront, in its essence, is beneficial to the community...
...agonizing question: Why had they not been made months ago? As angry members of Congress called for an inquiry, there was mounting concern that the Marines had not taken sufficient measures in light of the rapidly declining security situation since the end of August. Moreover, unsettling memories still linger of last April's bombing of the U.S. embassy, in which 63 people were killed...
...here and there, but no one knew how much, how serious or by whom. The result was vague and nagging alarm, a suspicion that the world's largest military power had trouble subduing a flyspeck island. However that impression might be dispelled later, some of the damage will linger. More important, the Administration's case for the invasion rests increasingly on the assertion that the Cubans had been attempting to transform Grenada into a sort of island fortress. Eyewitness reports from correspondents might have made that claim quickly convincing. Their absence may cause the question to persist: What...
...Kirkpatrick was the most suitable replacement. All along, Clark's deputy Robert McFarlane was considered by most of Reagan's advisers, and even by Reagan, as the obvious choice. But as in other foreign policy personnel disputes during the past three years, Reagan allowed the uncertainty to linger and leak. What should have been a clean change of command became another running story-similar to the one that accompanied the departure of Secretary of State Alexander Haig-of struggles between Administration pragmatists and ideologues. The recriminations from the dispute are still reverberating. "Those who fought McFarlane," says...