Word: fields
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...capital all resistance appears to have been crushed. Some Soviet units have set up their headquarters near the airport, with mess tents, field hospitals and huge, balloon-like fuel depots. In the early days, Russian soldiers patrolled the snow-covered streets and manned checkpoints throughout the city. By night they cruised the area in armored cars, sporadically firing into the starry sky. "The object of the shooting," said a traveler who managed to leave Kabul on the daily bus to Pakistan, "was to keep people frightened and inside their homes...
...historians argue that the traditional fierceness of the Afghans is a quality that defies measure. In January 1842, after an adventure in Afghanistan, the British ordered the withdrawal of 4,500 soldiers and 12,000 camp followers from Kabul. A week later, the sole survivor of the march, a field surgeon named Brydon, staggered into Jalalabad on the way to the Khyber Pass. The present generation of rebel tribesmen are hardly equipped to repeat such a feat. But, as a former U.S. Ambassador to Kabul, Robert Neumann, has observed, "Foreign invaders have found it easier to march into Afghanistan than...
...guerrillas attacked a white farm near the northwestern town of Sinoia, precipitating a clash with Rhodesian paramilitary police that left seven insurgents dead. The Commonwealth monitoring force suffered its first combat-related casualties when a Land-Rover detonated a mine, injuring a British soldier and a senior Patriotic Front field commander. The precarious truce was also marred by some 180 scattered incidents of banditry and lawlessness, from murder and kidnaping to armed robbery and cattle rustling. Patriotic Front officials insisted they were the acts of armed thugs rather than bona fide guerrillas...
John Williams, composer of the music to "Star Wars" and "Jaws" and winner of three Academy Awards in his field, has been named as the new conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, filling the vacancy created by Arthur Fiedler's death last July...
When Dr. Gail Fullerton, president of San Jose State, said the "death knell" of the AIAW had been sounded because of the NCAA's decision, she expressed the potentially detrimental hysteria the vote could promote. By entering the women's athletics field, the NCAA finally has shown it must recognize women's sports as an established institution. If the AIAW works against the NCAA it will face the task of fighting a Goliath with barely the weaponry of David...