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...follow the story, the newsmen bivouacked at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, plying diplomats for information over ashak canapes (leek-stuffed pastry in a sour cream broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel...
Relations between the two countries, which were good during the Nixon Administration, have deteriorated in recent years, and turned notably sour after General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq took power in a 1977 military coup. Washington was annoyed by the general's refusal to abide by his promise to hold elections and restore civilian rule, and was alarmed as well by Pakistan's plan to build a uranium-enrichment plant, reportedly financed in part by Libya...
...scent of the store has grown sour, nauseous. You try to hold your breath while heading for the door because otherwise you are going to die, and dropped-dead on the floor you will not make a cosmetically fetching corpse. But you stop first and buy a package of mints, half-believing that your exhalation of sweet, clear breath will be sufficient to extinguish the world, or at least Brattle Street...
...sour notes in last nights game were the absences or Jon Garrity and Bobby Fowkes. Both suffered injuries in practice this week and will probably not see action Saturday--although Fowkes says he will "try to play." Garrity's absence forced a slight realignment of the forwards as Rob Burns centered with wingers Rick Benson and Derek Malmquist to form the fourth line...
...when Ophelia pipes up "My lord," only to be scaldingly dismissed with "Get thee to a nunnery!" In the dietetic No-Cal version, Ophelia enters, "falls to ground. Rises and pulls gravestone to cover herself." The slimline Macbeth, with Stephen D. Newman and Ruth Hunt, is a sweet-and-sour spoof hung behind the Iron Curtain...