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...Pakistan claimed that the attackers blew up ammunition dumps, aviation-fuel tanks, barracks where Soviet flight crews and traffic controllers slept, and water tanks, crucial in drought-stricken Kabul. One Western military analyst observed that the raid showed both that "the iron discipline of the mujahedin has not been broken" and that the CIA weapons pipeline to the rebels is improving. MALAYSIA Where Dadah Means Death...
...running as fast as I was," Coe said later to the London Daily Mail, "and there's this guy ahead so relaxed he can look behind, you know you're in trouble." When the time went up, Cram had broken Coe's record by a full 1.02 sec. in an awesome 3:46.31. Awesome to all but Cram apparently. "With a better third lap I could have done 3:45," he told reporters. Hubris? Just a true hero's Olympian standards. "If I feel that I can't improve on my form," Cram said, "then I will pack...
...most troubled areas sealed off by soldiers and police, journalists were unable to explore the reasons for the outbreak of violence around Durban. But there were two possibilities: 1) that the local population had again turned its anger on the Indians as scapegoats or 2) that renewed fighting had broken out between Inkatha, the Zulu political organization, and the U.D.F., whose local membership is largely Swazi. In addition, the fear of losing control of the situation may have led police to use their shotguns too much and too soon. Zulu Chief Buthelezi blamed black nationalist organizations, mainly the U.D.F...
...born with no handicaps," he says defiantly. "Al1 the drinking I didn't do, all the smoking I didn't do, that was my own dedication. [He has been less circumspect around women and has also shown more than an academic interest in horses.] I've had broken toes and hyper-extended elbows, but the only time I didn't play was when I couldn't walk out there. You know, I don't ever catch cold in the summertime. You can't catch cold in the summertime...
...eight hours, broken only by a brief working lunch, Shevardnadze and Shultz, along with their advisers, reviewed thick documents that laid out the rival positions of each country. No new common ground emerged. "The positions are like black and white," said one American present, "and it is hard to see a shade of gray." It was a disconcerting prelude to Shultz's meeting the next day with Gorbachev...