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...Washington, officials also worked until dawn Wednesday morning. At 3:30 a.m., senior State Department aides phoned the White House and had their urgent call put through to the President's bedroom. Informed of the difficulties that had arisen and what Waldheim was doing about them, a groggy Carter told the aides to meet him in the Oval Office in two hours. The Administration meanwhile toughened the statement about the commission that it had drafted the previous week...
...floundering Kabul government of Party Boss Babrak Karmal was ordered to clamp martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the capital. Soviet troop reinforcements were rushed into the city to put down growing disturbances. Nonetheless, firefights that caused at least 50 casualties broke out in several parts of the city. As rebel leaders threatened to mount a full-scale attack on Kabul in March, intelligence officials in Washington could scarcely contain their glee at the Soviets' discomfiture. Said one defense analyst: "They've really got their feet in the quagmire...
...Africa 8 million years later; that was not long before the crucial split in the evolutionary tree that produced one branch leading to the apes, another to man. Simons is so sure of Aegyptopithecus' place in the evolutionary scheme that he has taken to calling the beast "the dawn...
...misty dawn of antiquity when we first see the chorus of high-spirited young women on the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Aldwych Theater. They are prompting one another on the ancient myths, the way children count on their fingers. It sets the conversational tone of this dramatic cycle and evokes a time when people felt themselves to be not only the prey and pawns of the gods but their intimates as well...
...each step of the way we have encountered intransigence on Harvard Real Estate's part; they continued to put us off until we convinced them on each occasion of the seriousness of our concerns, and that has meant in general recourse to the law. Rather than celebrate the dawn of a new age in landlord-tenant relations, we soberly suggest that the operations of Harvard Real Estate be scruitinized by the Cambridge community at large. Their policy is plainly based on maximizing profits, making repairs and improvements only when they must. Harvard Real Estate is of course a corporate entity...