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Kalait is a collection of smashed huts, thorn trees and wrecked vehicles. The army's divisional headquarters is a green canvas tent captured from the Libyans. Inside, sitting with legs crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: The Great Toyota War | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...were begun, but they were frustrated by thick clouds, high winds and blinding snow. Two of Uemura's friends, Climbers Jim Wickwire and Eiho Otani, were dropped onto the mountain by helicopter at the 14,300-ft. level to continue the search. Their major concerns: Uemura carried no tent, and his supplies of raw caribou meat, seal oil, fruit and fuel to melt snow for water would have been exhausted the day after he was spotted from the air. Even so, they held out hope. "Uemura has been in tough situations before," declared Tom Griffiths, chief ranger from Denali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fears for an Intrepid Explorer | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

More recently, the work has become, if not exactly more amiable, less wrenched by signs of aggression. It preserves its haunting collisions of imagery; who knows what the elephant is doing beside the field-hospital tent in M.A.S.H., 1978, or why the white figure is on its head-an effigy of his father, according to Morley-or why they are all in the Florida greenery? His paintings hop between memory and desire; infantile recollection, fragments of autobiography, references to historical art, all get crushed together. In the process he will quote anyone from Pollaiuolo (in La Plage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Haunting Collisions of Imagery | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

This was a full year before anybody pitched a tent outside the Harvard Hall ticket office when player tickets went on sale. It was the first time Harvard had made it into the ECAC playoffs since 1976, and the realization came very slowly that Was Lau was inches from deification and the team as a whole inches from greatness. They played before some sparse gatherings that year, but stuck it out and surprised an awful lot of people...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Here We Go Again | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

...will make its final appearance of the regular season Friday and Saturday nights at Briggs, which holds 350 less than Bright, Cornell also tied for first in the Ivies and Columbia will be in attendance. Tickets are available in you guessed it the basement of Harvard Hall. Leave your tent at home...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Here We Go Again | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

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