Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Today the target of the Afghans' anger is the Soviet force of 50,000 troops who have invaded and seized control of their land. "Shoravi Padar Lanath!"cried beggars and shopkeepers alike in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan's shabby, snow-covered capital. The curse ("Goddamn the Russians!") replaced morning pleasantries in the city's ancient bazaar. "Afghanistan is no more," lamented a bootblack in the shopping district of Share Nau. "We have lost everything...
...believe it will take all of them, perhaps 100,000 strong, to subdue the country, hold all the important towns and keep the roads open. With the force now in Afghanistan, U.S. analysts believe, the Soviets can hold Kabul and most provincial capitals, but nothing more. The Soviets also control many units of the Afghan army, but the army's ranks are depleted (down to an estimated 50,000 from as many as 150,000) and its loyalties bitterly divided...
...party, Peter Edelman, chief adviser on issues for Candidate Ted Kennedy, called the President "extraordinarily naive" in his "lack of appreciation of what the Soviets are all about." More obliquely, Senator Kennedy made a similar point. Said he: "I am deeply concerned that our foreign policy is out of control-that all we can do is react to events that constantly take us by surprise...
...were acquitted, although a pair of private detectives working for them went to jail. A federal judge ruled 2% years ago that the same brothers and five of their children had illegally exceeded the limits on purchases on the nation's soybean market. Bunker also directs first-family control of Hunt International Resources Corp., one of the nation's largest beet-sugar processors and owner of the Shakey's pizza chain. Brother Lamar, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, is a partner in the first family's petroleum company, Placid Oil. The second family owns Hunt...
...going. And precious metals were a good hedge against paper money." In late 1973, when the price was around $3 an oz., Bunker and Herbert went into silver Texas-style, buying an estimated 35 million oz. of silver futures. The brothers waged a bitter fight in 1977 to buy control of Sunshine Mining Co., which owns the nation's largest silver mine. In a rare defeat, their offer was rebuffed as too late and too low. Last year the Hunts went in even deeper, increasing their holdings by an estimated 23 million oz. Rumors spread that the family...