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...after reading the fine print in Gorbachev's offer, Western military analysts pooh-poohed it. Noting that three of the six regiments were antiaircraft units, they pointed out that Afghanistan's mujahedin resistance fighters lack an air force. Gorbachev's list also included an armored regiment not suited for the mountainous terrain where most of the fighting is taking place. In Islamabad, Resistance Leader Sibghatullah Mujaddadi asked, "How many years will it take for the withdrawal of all the 120,000 Soviet troops if pullback of 8,000 is going to take six months...
Mention Bears these days, and many Britons hardly give a thought to Paddington or Winnie-the-Pooh. The biggest bears of all, they know, come from Chicago. Ever since an N.F.L. game of the week started showing up on the country's TV screens four years ago, the "other" game of football throws fewer and fewer people for a loss. A monthly magazine called Touchdown counts 160,000 readers, and one Briton in every ten saw the Bears in this year's Super Bowl. It's not cricket, of course, but football seems certain to gain even more ground this...
Even The Crimson often fails to give Harvard the benefit of the doubt. Last February, The Crimson pooh-poohed the handling of the Hibbs resignation, saying the University didn't make enough information about the case available to the public to make it credible. And like many students around here, The Crimson continues to view Derek Bok as a Villain, as one who has isolated himself from undergraduates because he does not wish to debate his views on South Africa with them...
Nonetheless, McLaughlin pooh-poohed the entire incident. "We were emotionally drained," he said. "And Princeton was frustrated...
...BIAS precludes any serious discussion of the merits of the issues that were so hotly debated in the Vietnam era. It's not altogether clear whether immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam in 1965 would have been the best policy, as the authors glibly assume (page 46), pooh poohing anything short of immediate withdrawal as pandering to the non radical American public...