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As they continued, the road grew more treacherous and the sky more turbulent. The trucks were abandoned, and the fugitives continued on foot. On the second night three children died of cold and exhaustion; the following dawn, as the weary procession reached the border, two pregnant women and a teen...
Keynoter Cuomo, meeting Mondale last week in Brookline, Mass., for a fund-raising affair, pleaded with the about-to-be nominee to end the parade and "make an early commitment." This might make Mondale seem decisive, but it also could dissipate the convention's remaining drama. Mondale is trying to...
Why, in the early '60s, she began writing columns: "I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair." This archetypal wisecrack is, after her heartfelt growl about the overmeticulous neighbor who waxes her driveway, probably the best known of...
Usually she manages. On talk shows these days, she is always asked, with reference to the title of the new book, to name the oldest profession. She skips a beat, looks solemn and says, "Agriculture." It is very hard to catch her off balance. Her editor at McGraw-Hill, Gladys...
During the Soviet offensive last April, the Afghan rebels combined strategy and weaponry to bloody effect. In one operation, 800 mujahedin, coordinating their attacks by radio, ambushed a fleet of Soviet vehicles traveling along the Salang Road, the main highway between Kabul and the Soviet border. By the following day...