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...that changed in April 1978, when Noor Muhammad Taraki, a Soviet-supported Marxist, seized power in Kabul. It would be 20 months before Moscow would send the first of some 100,000 troops to occupy the country, but Soviet advisers were already leading the Afghan army in search-and-destroy missions across the countryside. The residents of Dobanday first became alarmed when they heard that the new regime was attacking religious leaders and traditions. The authorities then arrested two local elders and decreed that all houses in the settlement be thrown open for inspection...
...support ship, in addition to three warships stationed in Djibouti. The U.S. had sent a 15-man team of mine-warfare experts two weeks ago, and last week dispatched four Sea Stallion helicopters, support equipment and about 200 men to join the search. Their mission was not just to destroy the mines but to find and analyze them first. A Sea Stallion, flying at an altitude of 200 to 300 feet, uses a "sled" to tow a sonar detecting system through the water. Once a suspected mine is located, the unit sends divers down to take a look...
...resignation, he was near tears as he bade his staff farewell. He talked about his mother, "a saint," and urged his followers to be charitable. "Others may hate you," he said, "but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself...
...Orson Welles scared his radio fans with a show about aliens landing in Grovers Mill, N.J. Buckaroo Banzai proposes that the invasion was for real. The aliens were not Martians but "Lectroids" from the distant Planet 10, who took on human form while searching for the technology needed to destroy the earth and launch them back to do intergalactic evil. Now the technology, an Oscillation Overthruster, is just beyond their grasp: in the hands of our hero, who discovered it while traveling through solid rock and into the eighth dimension...
...DELIBERATE POLICY" put forth in The Abolition in a nutshell, is to persuade all nations to destroy their nuclear weapons (zap!), while allowing and encouraging open deployment of defensive anti-nuclear weaponry. This defense--which would possibly include something along of President Reagan's oft-ridiculed "Star Wars" weapons--would primarily ensure the capacity to build new nuclear warheads, should another country feel like breaking the pan pact...