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...much allure for most of today's models. If they are not would-be actresses like Shields, they have other aspirations. Iman wants to write children's books. Dickinson recently came back through the looking glass, moving behind the camera to shoot a designer showing for Italian Harper's Bazaar...
...think that's neat") and the star attraction at a film festival. Then she flew back by way of Rome, where she was photographed in full battle dress for the cover and a big inside feature of the Italian Harper's Bazaar. Then, since she was there and why not, she chummed around with Franco Zeffirelli, who directed her latest film, and helped Designer Valentino show his spring collection, keeping an eye out for one of his dresses to wear at the high school prom back in Englewood...
Because the airport and mam road were originally financed by the U.S., Americans are fondly remembered in Kandahar as dispensers of jobs and money. Nevertheless, our Caucasian features were a major liability. "Yes, you can go out," our host said, "but don't go to the bazaar. They will think you are Soviets and kill you." Everywhere we walked we were Indeed followed by smoldering black eyes. Only when the Afghans learned our nationality did hostile looks give way to smiles. That night we were awakened by the sound of gunfire close at hand. "Go back to America...
Kabul Airport is a massive Soviet military base. Tanks guard key city intersections. Cannons are trained on the main bazaar. Armored personnel carriers rumble through the streets. Heavily armed soldiers guard all public buildings. A curfew begins at 10 p.m., but the streets are empty between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. It is forbidden for more than four people to assemble without permission in a public place...
...troops. First reports said that some 400 civilians had been killed, and hundreds wounded, in the crushing of the uprising, which began with cries of "God is great!" and "Down with the Russians!" around the 18th century Pul-i-Hesti mosque and in the nearby Chahr Chatta (four arcades) bazaar in the old section of the city. Rumors in the capital now have it that as many as 1,500 people were killed. Most casualties reportedly occurred in a two-pronged move by the Soviets across the Pul-i-Hesti bridge over the Kabul River. Thousands of protesters were trapped...