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Ever since Soviet tanks first rumbled across the border in December 1979, Afghanistan has been an isolated land of mystery and misery. Some 3.3 million Afghans-20% of the population-are in exile, most of them in Pakistan. But little is known of the conditions they left behind. This spring...
Gently but firmly forced into retirement last year by President Reagan after a naval career of a mere 63 years, Admiral Hyman Rickover, 83, is scarcely gone or forgotten. Last week in Washington, Richard Nixon, 70, Gerald Ford, 69, and Jimmy Carter, 58 (another man forced into retirement by Reagan...
In the realm of finance, 1983 may be remembered as the year that competition rumbled through the banking industry and rattled its foundations. To be sure, bankers have long vied with one another to offer customers the shiniest toasters or softest Teddy bears, but they have not had to compete...
The year-end madness in Miami is usually happy and carefully orchestrated, a prelude to the Orange Bowl parade and the big college football game it self. But the madness in Miami last week was grim and unexpected. Three days before the floats and marching bands rumbled up Biscayne Boulevard...
As if to confirm the message, hundreds of heavy police trucks, vans equipped with water cannons and armored personnel carriers rumbled through the streets of Polish cities following the anniversary. In Gdansk, the birthplace of the now illegal independent union Solidarity, paramilitary ZOMOS concentrated on sealing off access to the...