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...interest of Iran. It prevents us from pursuing essential domestic and foreign policy goals. But the Americans have done it again. The criminal Shah's escape to Egypt undid a lot that we had achieved, especially in terms of persuading Iranians to fight a legal battle, rather than retain the U.S. hostages, for the extradition of the ex-dictator and retrieval of the fabulous wealth he has plundered. The Panamanian government, encouraged by Washington and prominent pro-Shah U.S. citizens, played games and lied to us all along. We are not back to Square One. But we have lost...
Kabul does retain some scraps of its former character. Donkeys laden with wicker panniers of fruit plod along the muddy side streets. Women beggars, their faces concealed completely by hoods with mesh eye holes, wail for baksheesh outside rug stores. Turbaned tribesmen from the mountains stride along shouldering huge bundles. Boys offer sticks of lamb shashlik grilled over charcoal at street corners. Outside moviehouses there are garish posters of Afghan-made westerns in which ersatz Omar Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because...
...Muruku Waiguchu, who is the third Black official to leave a post at the office in the last two years, said administrators lacked a committment to recruit minority students and failed to retain those already on campus...
...Though he immediately agreed to join forces with Mugabe in a coalition government, Nkomo turned down an offer of the figurehead presidency.* "I didn't think I was ready to neutralize my life," he explained to TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. When Mugabe decided to retain the strategic Defense portfolio for himself, Nkomo demanded control over the police. Mugabe finally agreed and gave Nkomo the Ministry of Home Affairs, with authority over the country's 8,000-man police force. Three other ministries and two deputy posts went to members of Nkomo's party...
Although they retain control of the rugged Hindu Kush region, the rebel guerrillas have suffered heavy casualties since the Soviet invasion last December. Intelligence experts believe the casualty ratio is about six mujahidin (holy warriors) to one Soviet soldier. Thus far an estimated 30,000 mujahidin have been killed or wounded. Last week leaders of five rebel groups met in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar to form yet another loosely structured "united front." Their aim: to seek financial support for more arms. One group sent representatives to mosques throughout Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, hoping to collect...