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...identity the various bones in the hand or say how many satellites orbit Jupiter, Mars, and Uranus? Contestants in Harvard's College Bowl answered those and other obscure questions during competition last weekend for a place in the regional tournament in two weeks...
...long, and seemingly unbroken, string of Moscow-sponsored Communist takeovers. Between 1944 and 1948, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany all fell under Soviet control, either by Soviet army conquest or political subversion. North Korea, which was occupied by Soviet troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French at Dien Bien Phu. In 1960, Fidel Castro aligned Cuba with the Kremlin...
...reasons for not backing the U.S. more forcefully. Several argue that the invasion of Afghanistan simply strengthened Moscow's control of a nation that was already a Soviet satellite-a deplorable act, certainly, but one that does not necessarily indicate aggressive designs on nations outside the Soviet orbit. Many European foreign policy experts also insist that the occupation of Afghanistan gives the West a golden opportunity to turn the Third World against the Soviets, but that this chance will be lost if Soviet-Western relations deteriorate into a new cold war. Says one Italian diplomat: "If there...
...Carter is understandable-and, for his critics, irresistible. After all, even though his predecessors had unwittingly contributed to the leftward drift of the Kabul government, it was during Carter's watch-and partly because of his misjudgments-that Afghanistan finally slipped from its traditional neutrality into the Soviet orbit...
More Middle East jitters send precious metals leaping into orbit...