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...Soviet firepower. Most of the fertile lowland is under military control. Rice fields by the Kunar River have been turned into helicopter landing pads. Troop convoys monopolize the Pich River bridge. In addition, ever since the Pakistan government's new policy of "strict neutrality" toward the Afghan insurgency, overland resupply across the border has become increasingly unsuccessfuland expensive, since the required bribes at border posts have risen accordingly. As a result, mujahidin in the hills have no meat, rice or corn. Above the Pich valley, they eat only stale millet bread and sairai leaves, which resemble holly...
...looked on, the two companies' project managers pushed the weapons to fly tighter and tighter maneuvers, lower and lower in order to test the equipment. Both suffered four crashes, but General Dynamics clearly came out the worse. Two of its missiles slammed into some isolated California scrubland during overland flights, and one started a small fire. On another faulty flight, the wings failed to unfold and the missile plunged into the Pacific like a rock. Boeing's flops were far less dramatic: two stemmed from communications foul-ups with the chase planes, one from programming errors...
...reach the port of Kompong Som. But it has refused to permit trucks to arrive from Bangkok lest the vehicles be hijacked by Khmer Rouge troops concentrated along the Thai border. Experts from the International Red Cross and UNICEF Starving child are convinced that Cambodia must use such overland convoys if it is to receive the massive quantities of grain that it needs. The primary reason the three Senators visited Cambodia, in fact, was to try to persuade the Phnom-Penh regime to do just that. But at week's end the ruling People's Revolutionary Council rejected...
Eichner has earned a reputation as a top-notch runner with 13 long years of dedication to his sport. He began running as a third grader in Overland Park, Kansas...
While world attention has been riveted on the tragic exodus of 500,000 Vietnamese boat people who have escaped by sea to Southeast Asia, another virtually invisible stream of 251,000 refugees has made its way overland into the People's Republic of China. Ethnic Chinese, they have been driven out of Viet Nam in the past 18 months when they became the target of anti-Chinese prejudice - exacerbated by heightened hostility between Hanoi and Peking. Little was known of their fate until last week when Peking, hoping for aid from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, allowed...