Word: retreater
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...points in besieged garrison towns around Afghanistan, sentries in camouflage uniforms guard mounds of duffel bags, stripped-down weapons and communications gear. The streets teem with jeeps, armored personnel carriers, trucks, tanks, half-tracks, command cars, vans, ambulances. The vehicles are the beasts of burden for a caravan of retreat and defeat that will begin this week to wend its way through the rugged passes of the Hindu Kush, north toward home along the Salang Highway, which stretches from Kabul to the Soviet border. The road was a "gift" from the U.S.S.R. to the people of Afghanistan in the 1960s...
Historically, retreats into the occult and the mystic have often been correlated with times of social stress, such as during the height of the Dark Ages, and I fear this is one more sign of a "malaise" we have been trying to deny. The casual acceptance of ignorant superstition at the highest political level speaks of an intellectual retreat, for which the Reagan Administration has often been criticized. We have seen the emergence of a blind faith that "it"--the debt, the decaying environment, the nuclear menance, the drug trade--will all work out somehow, as if by magic; perhaps...
...billion in the first quarter, has increased its market share, but mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share of U.S. sales has plummeted from 46% in 1984 to about 37.5% now. Two weeks ago, GM revealed that it is staging what amounts to an orderly retreat in the face of both domestic and foreign competitors. The company will cut back on capacity, which will make recovering its lost market share difficult...
...cover its retreat, Moscow is banking on the tenacity of Najibullah, the Afghan Communist leader installed by the Soviets in 1986, and his ragtag 150,000-member security force. Najibullah, the former chief of KHAD, the Afghan secret police, is trying to win over the mujahedin by promoting capitalism and elections and by playing up his adherence to the Muslim faith. His efforts have not impressed the rebels, but he evidently hopes to gain credibility in Western eyes...
...lost the nomination; just 66% say they would be content with another candidate. However, blacks may yet become so angered or frustrated by what happens to Jackson that they lose interest. Many party leaders fear what a black adviser to Dukakis calls a "real danger of letdown" -- a retreat to the sidelines -- because Jackson's success has raised expectations so high. Eddie Williams, president of the Joint Center for Political Studies, a black think tank, argues that blacks are so eager to put a Democrat in the White House that they will turn out in large numbers "provided that Jesse...