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...main force behind the Panjshiri guerrillas is former Engineering Student Ahmed Shah, 28, who operates under the name Massoud. The scion of one of Kabul's wealthiest families, Massoud first ran into trouble with authorities for being involved with Islamic groups. He has turned the valley into a virtually autonomous state, with independently functioning schools, finances, food distribution, prisons and security committees. He has managed to capture a sizable quantity of Communist supplies. As a result, all his guerrillas wear regular uniforms-Czechoslovak combat boots, fatigue pants and field jackets-and most are equipped with Soviet AK-47 rifles...
...leader of the militant American Agriculture Movement and a scion of the television age, Cryts knew what to do. He held a press conference in January 1981 to announce that if the beans were not turned over to him by Feb. 16, he would go get them. Some 3,000 farmers from Pennsylvania to California poured into Missouri's bootheel to help. On Feb. 18, Cryts led a caravan of 78 trucks, ranging from pickups to 18-wheelers, along Highway 60 to the padlocked elevator, where the group confronted a line of federal marshals and FBI agents...
DIED. Noah Dietrich, 92, sagacious financial adviser and accountant who masterminded the operations of Howard Hughes' billion-dollar empire for more than 30 years; in Palm Springs, Calif. Dietrich joined Hughes in 1925 and molded the wealthy scion's $10 million Hughes Tool Co. into a major corporation. Hughes fired Dietrich 32 years later in a dispute about money. In 1972 Dietrich co-wrote Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, believed to be the principal source for a counterfeit Hughes autobiography written by Clifford Irving...
DIED. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 77, redoubtable financier, distinguished diplomat, enterprising publisher and the epitome of a U.S. patrician; of congestive heart failure; in Manhasset, N.Y. The Groton-and Yale-educated scion of one of America's wealthiest and most distinguished families. Whitney used his entrepreneurial skills in a grand array of profitable ventures. In the 1930s he astutely backed Gone With the Wind and the long-running Broadway hit Life with Father. He also made early investments in Minute Maid orange juice, Pan American World Airways and several radio and TV stations. A moderate Republican, he was named...
...milk. The story was picked up by TV news and papers across the country. The New York Times's front-page headline: U.S. ACTS TO SHRINK SCHOOL LUNCH SIZE IN ECONOMY MOVE. The merits of the controversy got covered with catsup. Scoffed Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Heinz, a scion of the catsup-making family: "This is one of the most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of." The final straw came when Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, South Carolina's Ernest Hollings and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, were photographed staring with distaste...