Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elusive thing among Afghanistan's mujahedin, who have been feuding since even before the 1979 Soviet invasion. Two weeks ago, rivalries erupted in gunfire when members of the Jamiat-i-Islami faction, a fundamentalist group, were ambushed while returning from a five-day strategy session in the northern Farkhar Valley. Gunmen from a local command of the more radical Hezb-i-Islami faction killed 30 Jamiat men, including seven military commanders. Jamiat quickly pointed an accusing finger at Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hezb's leader, whose power struggle with the Jamiat leadership dates back to the 1970s. Without Hekmatyar's authorization, said...
...only a handful of Pakistanis man machine guns, to ensure that no Indian reconnaissance helicopter passes unchallenged. Blue sky forms a stunning canvas for the cathedrals of snow-laden mountains topping 20,000 ft., including K2, the world's second highest peak. The Pakistani brigadier who commands the northern sector of the area looks around and says, "This place is beautiful. It was not meant for fighting...
TIME's first overseas editions, produced for U.S. forces during World War II, were known as pony editions, for their compact size and reduced news content. During World War II, we also started publishing a Canadian edition that included a special section of news about our northern neighbor. That edition was expanded in 1962, with the opening of an editorial office in Montreal, and began publishing occasional Canadian cover stories...
Early on Monday, June 26, word reached Bodo, Norway's military and civilian surveillance and rescue center 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle, that a nuclear-powered Soviet submarine was dead in the water and billowing smoke 65 miles off the northern coast. There was an immediate sense of deja vu: in April another Soviet nuclear sub sank in the Norwegian Sea, with the loss of 42 lives. Following standard procedure, the center telexed its counterpart in the Soviet port of Murmansk to inquire if help was needed...
Toad's muscles glowed with well-being. He sported a touraco feather in his slouch hat. He had walked for days out of Kitich, a remote, beautiful camp on the Nyeng River in Northern Kenya, and now was skirting the Mathews Range in sandy, thorny country. Vultures wheeled over a distant lion kill. Toad was walking through heaven...