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...week, a steady stream of MiGs and Su-17 attack aircraft arrived at Kabul airport to support the Soviet forces in the countryside. Just five miles east of the capital, resistance was continuing at the Pule-Charkhi army headquarters. Instead of opening the gates of the fort, as the Soviets had ordered them to do, the Afghan troops stationed there had killed their Russian advisers and prepared for a siege. The Soviet forces were reluctant to storm the base, lest this lead to a massacre, but they quickly surrounded it. Their solution was to position 20 tanks, their gun barrels...
Some observers distinguish two stages in the entire upheaval: the first a popular revolt that overthrew the Shah, then a "Khomeini coup" that concentrated all power in the clergy. The Ayatullah's main instrument was a stream of elamiehs (directives) from Qum, many issued without consulting Bazargan's nominal government. Banks and heavy industry were nationalized and turned over to government managers. Many of the elamiehs were concerned with imposing a strict Islamic...
...funnels. Hamilton (no kin to the patriot) is a pleasant man with wire-rimmed glasses, mutton-chop whiskers, and the dirty fingernails of a chronic tinkerer. As Pressler watches proudly, Hamilton pours fermented corn mash into his contraption, plugs in an electric cord, and begins adjusting valves. A tiny stream of alcohol squirts into a plastic bucket. The odor of the alcohol mingles in the room with the disquieting scent of dementia...
...syndicated in 1976, her twice-weekly column now appears in 207 papers, 45 of which have signed on this year. A collection of her pieces, Close to Home (Simon & Schuster; $9.95), was published last month. The book's 109 selections show Goodman at her evenhanded best, a cool stream of sanity flowing through a minefield of public and private quandaries. "The thinking woman's Erma Bombeck," says an editor at the Los Angeles Times. Observes Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship: "She's talking over the back fence to everybody in a very sophisticated, grownup...
...judge for themselves next fall when they watch Holden in The Earthling, a tale about an Australian bat-around-the-world who finally comes home to die. He stops along the way to take a beefcake bath-or in Holden's case, a sirloin splash-in an Australian stream. He also encounters Child Star Ricky Schroder (The Champ), who at nine has just lost mother and father in an automobile crash. What happens next is tearjerking. It also includes kangaroos and wallabies...