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...depots outside. Bristling with four machine guns each, they rumble alongside the frozen Kabul River past shuttered mosques and deserted bazaars, and halt momentarily in front of each government building. The elite paratroops who alight do not doze or socialize like the less disciplined Afghans from whom they assume command. Dressed in fur hats, bulky greatcoats and elephantine boots, they stand alert in the shadows waiting for the armored personnel carriers to pick them up again just before dawn...
Other Soviet units moved east from conquered Kabul toward the Khyber Pass and into Paktia province, a center of the Muslim insurgence. The Soviet command post is at Termez, where they have built a satellite communications station to give them a direct link to Moscow. The Soviets now have two airborne divisions and two motorized infantry divisions in Afghanistan, plus support troops, to bring their total strength...
...that soldiers responsible for such acts were treated as "outcasts" and turned over to "disciplinary committees." There were also summary executions of African "informers," he explains: "An informer is more dangerous than someone who is carrying a gun." But those, says Masuku, were sentenced according to disciplined channels of command...
While the American carmakers still sell more small autos in the U.S. than foreign manufacturers do, they command only 63% of this market, which now accounts for more than half of all cars sold and is growing fast. The top-selling small models are still U.S. products: the Ford Fairmont and the Chevrolet Citation among the compacts, and the Chevette and Chrysler's Omnis and Horizons among the subcompacts. But the third and fourth bestsellers in the subcompact category are the Toyota Corolla and the Datsun...
...presidency was on General Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s mind last June when he relinquished his NATO command and retired from the Army. But the onetime chief of staff of the Nixon White House soon discovered that he had no constituency to return him to Pennsylvania Avenue on his own. Last week Haig, 55, settled for a leadership role of a different sort: president and chief operating officer of United Technologies Corp., a Connecticut-based company that manufactures everything from air conditioners and escalators to jet engines and helicopters. He will earn roughly twice the $200,000 a year...