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...used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private. "Everybody wants to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Looking Toward the Final Days | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...they meet again this week. Nonetheless, Pantasma seems more weighed down by its bloody past than it is buoyed by any belief that the battles may finally be over. "The people have no confidence in either the government or the contras. They have been oppressed by both," says Padre Victor Mendoza, the town's Roman Catholic priest. "They hope, but they don't really dare to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua A Town That Peace Forgot | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Yale's victory at number-three doubles tied the match at 4-4 with the number-two doubles left to decide the victor...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Yale Edges Netmen In Nightmarish Finale | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...competition went down to the wire, leaving the last event, the mile relay, to decide which team would be the victor...

Author: By Chris Thorne, | Title: Harriers Rout Northeastern on Opening Day | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...black community, and now they question his continuing support ^ among whites. What these conventional calculations miss is Jackson's uncanny ability to invent his own rules and often win by them. Even if Jackson does not ultimately leave the Democratic Convention in triumph, he will still be a victor. For he has already taught white America that a black person is not only somebody, he can be anybody. Even President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Jesse Seriously | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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