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...Afghanistan, they came through an exchange that has also taken some 50 American Viet Nam veterans to the Soviet Union. The program has achieved profound communions between men who thought of themselves as enemies. In Moscow, after a Soviet vet ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were "in many ways brothers." Said Soviet veteran Sasha Karpenko: "We feel ourselves part of those who died in Viet...
Once upon a time, high-quality watches ticked, had mechanical movements (hand- wound or self-winding) and almost always came from Switzerland. But that was before the onslaught of Japanese quartz watches dealt a near deathblow to the Swiss industry. Now Swiss watchmakers, who survived by converting to quartz technology, plan to turn back the clock...
...guerrillas launched an assault on the city, which was defended by an estimated 11,000 government troops. From ! the rebel perspective, Jalalabad was a logical, indeed necessary target. Government forces occupied 25 of Afghanistan's 31 provincial capitals. Seizing Jalalabad, the third largest city, would not only wound the fragile morale of government troops, but it would also enhance the rebels' bid for wider international recognition of their newly formed government-in-exile. Some mujahedin leaders confidently predicted that the city would fall within a week...
...says Reynolds, ignited the flames of family ruin. Despite the author's wooden narration, he portrays a cast of heirs straight out of Dynasty: wastrels, alcoholics and eccentrics who became entangled in sordid divorces and murky crimes. Patrick's uncle Smith Reynolds, a daredevil pilot, died of a gunshot wound and was deemed a suicide. The author suggests that his uncle's second wife actually did the deed. Patrick Reynolds rarely saw his father, R.J. (Dick) Reynolds Jr., a chain smoker and heavy drinker who married four times and died at 58 of emphysema...
...time Wright took to the podium, he knew that the vote of the committee, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, was likely to be 8 to 4 in favor of finding some violations. The defection of two Democrats is not a mortal wound, but if the same percentage abandons Wright when the entire House votes, his hold on the speakership would be in peril. Democrats had been urging Wright to launch a pre-emptive defense. Says a House leadership aide: "We were being procedural nerds with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait...