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...Panjshir Valley has already survived six punishing assaults, but never has it faced more men or heavier air strikes. As many as 100 Soviet Tu-16 Badger bombers and Su-24 Fencer fighters saturated the area with high-altitude carpet bombing. In their wake came some 80 Mi-24 Hind assault helicopters, more than 500 tanks and armored personnel carriers and, according to Western diplomats, more than 20,000 troops, almost a fifth of the entire Soviet force in Afghanistan. The target of this unprecedented show of force was not so much the rebels as the civilians, who have apparently...
...northern Nicaragua, the war simmered on. Units of the contra army known as the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) continued to launch raids from their Honduran base camps into Sandinista territory. The extent of contra successes remained difficult to determine. The rebels claim to control nearly 6,000 sq. mi. of Nicaraguan territory, with strong support from the peasantry, and to operate freely in an additional 2,700-sq.mi. area. But one of the F.D.N.'s leaders, Edgar Chamorro Coronel, declared to TIME last week that "to achieve a victory we would need not 8,000 fighters...
...momentous as such developments are, they have so far touched only a fraction of the country. With a quarter of the world's people scattered across 3.69 million sq. mi., China is so vast and complex that even the most far-reaching reforms will take years to filter down to every farm, village and faraway province. Nor can any regime transform almost overnight a proud nation saddled with a 3,000-year history of turbulence...
...left a D-shaped crater about 60 ft. wide, 150 ft. long and between 10 and 30 ft. deep. Although apparently no radiation had leaked, 14 workers emerged with broken bones and lacerations. Craters from previous underground nuclear tests pock the desert floor elsewhere on the 1,350-sq.-mi. site. But officials said they had had no reason to expect such a result in the mesa because it is made up of hardened volcanic ash and granite. In the past 20 years, the Government has exploded 45 nuclear devices with no ill effects in the tunnels bored under...
...heavily industrialized West Germany. In the central state of Hesse, 10% of the spruce are now gone; in the northern city-state of Hamburg, almost 25% of the pines are suffering. Southern Germany has been hit most severely: more than half the trees in the 2,300-sq.-mi. Black and 1,800-sq.-mi. Bavarian for ests are damaged, and the devastation is spreading. Last year, according to the Interior Ministry in Bonn, only 8% of the nation's forests were afflicted. This year the figure has leaped to 34%. The situation in East German forests is reported...