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...MiGs arrived over Spina Bora, some 20 miles from Jalalabad, Afghanistan's fifth largest city, just before 7 a.m. Half a dozen jets flew out of the northwest, dropped parachute flares to deflect heat-seeking missiles, and then began their bombing runs. Mujahedin 12.7-mm and 14.5-mm heavy machine guns opened fire from the surrounding mountains, shooting in wide arcs across the sky. At the guerrilla base, Commander Khan Emir and about 20 of his men stood defiantly on an open knoll, firing at the jets with AK-47 assault rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers. Other nearby guerrilla...
...conflict in Afghanistan is a war of a thousand skirmishes. The mujahedin from Spina Bora and neighboring bases have in recent weeks been attacking Soviet and Afghan government defensive positions around Jalalabad. The air base there has been virtually shut down because of the threat of Stingers fired from the surrounding hills. During April, five MiGs and several Mi-24 helicopter gunships were shot down in the Jalalabad area by the potent shoulder-fired missiles. Now the Soviets are counterattacking, sending waves of MiGs from the Bagram air base, outside Kabul...
Carlton Johnson was suffering from spina bifida, a condition in which the spine is not closed, as an infant at Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City in 1981. On the advice of hospital doctors, his parents did not request corrective surgery. Carlton survived, thanks in part to a later operation, but is now mentally retarded. Last week the hospital was accused of withholding treatment from a number of afflicted infants based on "quality of life" considerations, thus causing the death of 24 babies...
...Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church, who presented the award to Lebowitz at last night's benefit concert by cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, praised Lebowtiz for his work with children in Canton, Mass who are victims of spina bifida...
Pithier assessments could be ob| tained at Beirut airport, where preparations for the Marine withdrawal -were already under way. "There doesn't seem to have been any point in all those Marines dying," said Corporal Stacy Spina, 22, of Williams, Minn. "Sometimes you get mad at the politicians and the world." Lance Corporal Charles Johnson, 22, of Louisville, Ky., told how he was looking forward to getting out. "There is no sense being here as sitting ducks," he said. "We are not serving any useful purpose." As he spoke, Army trucks loaded with diesel generators rumbled by. The convoy...