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...some 105,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan. Using tanks, helicopters and fighter-bombers, these forces pounded villages throughout the Shomali region. Their objective, presumably, was to obliterate guerrilla strength around the crucial 50-mile stretch of highway leading from Kabul toward the Soviet border, along which the invaders transport their supplies. Meantime, according to Western intelligence reports, Soviet bombers were attacking targets near Herat in the west and around Kandahar in the south. They apparently hope that by demolishing villages they can devastate local agriculture and drive the residents from areas that might otherwise lend support to the insurgents...
...here." Ride clearly was. She enjoyed flights in NASA's two-seat T-38 trainers so much that she went on to get her private pilot's license. She threw herself enthusiastically into parachute training, scuba diving and even stomach-churning flights aboard a NASA KC-135 transport, whose high-speed arcs gave the Ascans a brief, exhilarating taste of weightlessness...
Nonetheless, one-third of Iran's imports still travel through Soviet territory and, with its biggest port, Khorramshahr, closed, Iran is dependent on Soviet rail transport. The Soviets could retaliate by stemming those imports, courting the Mujahedin guerrillas or increasing their already considerable supply of sophisticated arms to Iraq. Soviet KGB agents from nearby Soviet Azerbaijan have reportedly infiltrated Iran to replace the agents who were arrested...
Washington received another boost last week in Brazil. The government of President Joao Baptista Figueiredo announced that it had seized four Libyan transport aircraft loaded with a reported 200 tons of illicit arms and explosives. The destination of the clandestine shipment: the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. For the U.S., the discovery constituted welcome proof that leftist Central American insurgencies are being abetted from outside the hemisphere. Nicaraguan Ambassador to Brazil Ernesto Gutierrez implausibly said that his government knew nothing about the contents of the airlift...
According to Trevor-Roper, nearly half the paintings and drawings by Hitler have been destroyed. Among the 400 that were aboard the ill-fated Luftwaffe transport are many sketches of Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, including some nude drawings. The other finds, Trevor-Roper says, will astonish historians, and standard accounts of Hitler's writing habits, personality and even some public events may have to be revised. They include whole volumes written by Hitler on Jesus Christ, Frederick the Great and himself, as well as a third volume of Mein Kampf. Writes Trevor-Roper: "It is the other...