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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uncovering a dark epoch in an ancient melting pot's past...
Although comparisons at this time with Tut's treasure are surely exaggerated, there is no denying that the excavation will yield important information on a particularly puzzling gap in the murky past of one of the crossroad regions of the world, a melting pot of ancient Mediterranean and Eastern cultures. Says Archaeologist Viktor I. Sarianidi, leader of the research team: "These discoveries fill that gap and we learn that there was no break in the development of the culture...
...gold, it is the mud-and-brick temple that may prove to be the real scientific treasure, providing insights into Afghanistan's even remoter past. It contains two halls whose flat roofs were supported by 15 square columns; the altar in the larger room shows traces of ash. No one knows who the builders were, what they were burning or where they ultimately went. (One theory: they may have been Aryans, who spoke an Indo-European language and who later decamped to India.) Says Sarianidi: "The temple may yet tell us something about those people, who otherwise have left...
...European action represented a sharp challenge to the authority of the FAA. In the past, European carriers have automatically obeyed FAA directives involving U.S.-made aircraft. When Washington withdrew the DC-10's airworthiness certificate on June 6, the Europeans promptly grounded their 10s too and undertook extensive FAA-required examinations of the engine pylons and wing attachment fittings, which National Transportation Safety Board investigators suspect may have had a key role in the cause of the U.S.'s worst airline catastrophe...
...company urgently needs infusions of fresh capital to modernize old plants and increase its output of small gas-sipping models. But a Chrysler deal would make little sense for Volkswagen, which has just regained its old momentum after a long period of drift, during which Japanese automakers zipped past it in many major markets. Detroit executives point out that Volkswagen, which is the most firmly established foreign automaker in the U.S., does not need Chrysler's dealer network or antiquated plants. Most of all, VW does not need Chrysler's huge unsold inventory of big autos that could...