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Kahn was born in Bayonne, N.J., graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1945 and three years later joined the Rand Corp., the California think tank that helps the Pentagon develop defense strategies. He rejected the prevailing nuclear doctrine, Mutual Assured Destruction, which postulates that the devastation accompanying a nuclear exchange will deter the use of such weapons. Instead, he urged preparation for fighting limited nuclear wars...
...Kahn left Rand to help form his own think tank, the Hudson Institute, on bucolic acreage north of New York City. He kept his umbilical cord of contracts with the Pentagon; approximately half of the institute's $3.6 million annual budget comes from Government contracts. But he also branched out to ponder other societal problems. Among the studies being pursued: prospects for electronic transmission of mail, ways to win a war in El Salvador, alternatives to the federal income tax, the strength of the Soviet navy. On a typical day, Kahn moved from seminars to informal discussions spouting such...
...must rely on resilience and resourcefulness. Their principal aim is to stem the tide of refugees. Along the exit route in the Panjshir Valley, for example, they check the papers of every would-be emigrant, turning back those without appropriate mujahedin documentation. In battle, the rebels specialize in bushwhacking tank columns, raiding army garrisons, blowing up power lines and assassinating members of the KhAD. Using Soviet land mines fished out of the ground with wooden pitchforks, they destroyed at least twelve enemy tanks in the Panjshir Valley last year. "We destroy their tanks in such a way that they cannot...
...Medicine section's senior editor, James Atwater, also jogs away tension and praises biofeedback techniques, which he learned in a program at Duke University two years ago. Yet another runner is Medicine Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter, who has tried a "tranquillity tank," spending half an hour floating in a dark saltwater chamber. "I didn't begin to feel the beneficial effect until afterward," she reports. "Suddenly I was HUGH PATRICK BROWN refreshed and clear and focused, and the relaxed feeling lasted longer than that from any other technique I've tried...
...first time in a decade, there is a vibrant sense of momentum in the black community. "Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement," says Eddie Williams, president of the Joint Center for Political Studies, a black think tank. "Thirteen years later, we're beginning to really believe...