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Helicopter gunships blaze away at elusive guerrillas. The army of a superpower tries to shore up an allied regime against an insurgency, but the puppet government and its military forces only grow weaker. The rebellion spreads. What was intended as a swift surgical operation begins to resemble a futile, possibly humiliating war without...
...desertion-prone Afghan army that has no stomach or heart for fighting the Muslim insurgent Helicopter gunships blaze away at elusive guerrillas. The army of a superpower tries to shore up an allied regime against an insurgency, but the puppet government and its military forces only grow weaker. The rebellion spreads. What was intended as a swift surgical operation begins to resemble a futile, possibly humiliating war without...
...figures in the recent escape of the six Americans from Iran [Feb. 11] is Canada's Secretary for External Affairs, Flora MacDonald. That is the same name as that Highland Scot who assisted Bonnie Prince Charlie in his escape from the clutches of the English after his aborted rebellion...
...less critical of Carter's economic policies than Schmidt. French military officials now work more closely with their NATO counterparts than they have in years. The U.S. and France have also smoothly coordinated their efforts in Africa. American planes carried the French troops that helped put down the rebellion in Zaire's Shaba province in 1978. The trouble is, De Gaulle made the U.S. far more sensitive to criticism from France than from, say, West Germany. "It's too bad," says one American diplomat who knows Paris well. "We can use French advice, but this constant kibitzing...
...poetry and her life. Though critics complained that her "message became more important to her than [its] expression," when her Collected Poems appeared in 1978 they also praised her devotion to the dissident muse named in her first book, Theory of Flight (1935), as "Not Sappho, Sacco./ Rebellion pioneered among our lives...