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Five Peking newspapers have mounted a fund-raising campaign to help put the wall back together again. The drive has already attracted around $250,000 in contributions. The project will not be completed for several years. Until then, the Great Wall will continue to look, as Peking Journalist Su Wenyang puts it, "like a great sleeping dragon covered with cuts and bruises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Humpty Dumpty, Peking-Style | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...eight count before winning the decision. Breland flashed his old form hi stopping Mexico's Genaro Leon in the first round of the quarterfinals, and handily whipped Italy's Luciano Bruno to reach the gold-medal round. His 5-0 victory over South Korea's Young-Su An for the gold was something of a formality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: GOLD TODAY, GREEN TOMORROW | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Panjshir Valley has already survived six punishing assaults, but never has it faced more men or heavier air strikes. As many as 100 Soviet Tu-16 Badger bombers and Su-24 Fencer fighters saturated the area with high-altitude carpet bombing. In their wake came some 80 Mi-24 Hind assault helicopters, more than 500 tanks and armored personnel carriers and, according to Western diplomats, more than 20,000 troops, almost a fifth of the entire Soviet force in Afghanistan. The target of this unprecedented show of force was not so much the rebels as the civilians, who have apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: The Bear Descends on the Lion | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Eugene C. Su Farmington Hills, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 16, 1984 | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...Nimeiri does not have much to be proud of as far as the economy is concerned. Though Su|dan has some 200 million acres of arable land, only 10% of it is under cultivation. Some farmers have given up trying to market their produce because of the country's abominable road system. Shortages of skilled labor and raw materials have forced factories to operate at a fraction of capacity. Electrical blackouts are commonplace; one outage in Khartoum this past summer lasted 24 days. Sudan has rescheduled its foreign debt (currently some $8 billion) five times since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan: Hearts, Minds and Helicopters | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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