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...offer had all the first-glance appeal that observers have learned to expect from recent Soviet peace proposals. It came from Afghan Communist Party Leader Najibullah, who said last week that his Soviet-backed government would observe the first cease-fire in its seven-year war against the country's Muslim rebels. Najibullah, who was installed last May with the support of the 120,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan, said the truce would begin...
Democratic Assembly- woman Maxine Waters, who led the seven-year fight for the bill, believes a message has been sent not just to South Africa but to Ronald Reagan. Said she: "It says you don't have to be afraid...
...fair, Columbia is not alone in its problems. U.S. box-office attendance for the first six months of 1986 hit a seven-year low of 488.6 million, compared with a mid-1983 high of 599 million. Even with a strong summer, year-end box-office sales are expected to fall below 1985's $3.75 billion, which was nearly 7% lower than...
Capital Research Center, Washington. Run by Willa Johnson, a seven-year Heritage veteran and former Reagan Administration personnel official. Focuses on matching corporate givers with appropriate advocacy tanks. A recent publication, The Second Front: Advancing Latin American Revolution in Washington, provides a hit list of left-of-center think tanks and legislators who oppose U.S. involvement in Latin America...
...bust in oil prices will pass in time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah...