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...desk where the goods are inspected and then usually stand in a long line behind other bargain hunters. Since the refund check may be difficult or expensive to cash in the U.S., the best way to pay the VAT is with a credit-card voucher, which the storekeeper can destroy after receiving the form from Customs. On the other hand, U.S. Customs lies in wait at the other end. Returning travelers can bring in $400 worth of merchandise free, but they are charged 10% for the next $1,000, and a variety of rates, depending on the object, for everything...
...heightened activity has led Western intelligence sources to conclude that the Soviets are making a greater effort than ever before to destroy mujahedin units operating from sanctuaries in Pakistan and stem the flow of weapons and supplies provided to the resistance by the U.S., China and several Muslim states. The U.S. pipeline alone is delivering an estimated $250 million in covert aid this year. Additional humanitarian assistance is going to the 3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, whose number has increased by 500,000 over the past year...
...preparing for an all-out campaign against the mujahedin, including their bases in Pakistan. Pakistani officials point out, for example, that Moscow seems to have lost interest in the resumption of the U.N.-mediated talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Geneva. If the Soviets are in fact determined to destroy the mujahedin once and for all, it stands to reason that they would exert increased pressure on the neighboring country that provides the guerrillas with sanctuaries and their main supply line...
...lobby of Building No. 391 at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory near San Francisco stands a cast-iron sculpture of Shiva, the multiarmed god whose whirligig dances, according to Hindu tradition, alternately create and destroy all earthly life. Near by is a wood-and-plastic model of Nova, the world's most powerful laser, which is housed in cavernous quarters the size of a football field. The juxtaposition of the two objects is apt, and for several reasons. Like Shiva, the $176 million laser bristles with its equivalent of arms: ten bright blue tubes, each a conduit for an intense laser beam...
...page 22) horrified Western audiences. The photographer, Eddie Adams, learned later that the prisoner had slaughtered a police major who was a friend of Loan's, as well as the officer's wife and their six children. "I just took the picture. And all of a sudden I destroy a guy's life," Adams said in a recent interview. Loan, who moved to the U.S. after the war, was stuck with a reputation for brutality and was nearly deported in 1978. Reprieved by the Carter Administration, he operates a restaurant in Burke...