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...ineffectiveness was the fact that the Cabinet was riddled with dissension and palace intrigue. Despite official Afghan denials, for instance, there were persistent reports that Karmal's Vice President, Sultan Ali Kishtmand, had perhaps died in Moscow, where he was supposedly flown for medical treatment following a Shootout among members of the Revolutionary Council. Another rumor, that Karmal's own younger brother and adviser Mahmoud Baryalai, had also died of bullet wounds, was squelched only after he popped up on Soviet television with assurances that "I am alive and well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: A Taunt: Kill Us! Kill Us! | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

Greensboro Shootout The article about the Ku Klux Klan shootout [Nov. 12] makes Greensboro, N.C., sound like the most racially disturbed city in the South. It is correct that Greensboro has been the scene of many civil rights protests in the past, but our community has grown together, both blacks and whites, to become one of the best of cities to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...shootout on Nov. 3 was not an act of Greensboro citizens but of two sickminded organizations from outside our community. Why Greensboro was picked for such ill-considered actions by the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Workers Viewpoint Organization is a question that everyone here would like answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...site of bitter racial conflict, dating back to sit-ins at lunch counters in the early 1960s and a riot in 1969 at a predominantly black local college that left one student dead. Nothing in Greensboro's past, however, came close to what happened last week: a Shootout between Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Klan protesters in which four people were killed and nine were wounded. The city's mayor, Jim Melvin, called it "one of the most hideous acts in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shootout in Greensboro | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...with Cha and his chief of staff, Kim Kae Won, who was known to be a friend of the intelligence chief but whose own role in the events remains mysterious. Thus because of his planned appointment with the KCIA boss, Chung happened to be in the building when the Shootout and killings took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Mourning and Post-Mortems | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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