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...last week was obviously designed to extend his narrow base. For the first time since Noor Mohammed Taraki's Marxist coup in 1978, the 20-member Cabinet includes three politicians from outside the card-carrying ranks of the ruling Communist People's Democratic Party, as well as five senior military officers. Four of the officers were also named to the seven-member Praesidium, the main executive body. The government grandly announced the disbanding of the dread KAM secret police, which it said Hafizullah Amin had used for "his own criminal ends." The gesture was not likely to fool...
Last week, however, letters from at least five of the hostages arrived in the U.S. The oldest of the captives, retired Foreign Service Officer Robert C. Ode, 64, had written several of them. In a message addressed to the President, Ode begged Carter to "free us from this terrible situation." An almost identical letter to the Washington Post painted a moving portrait of the hostages' mental and physical suffering. Wrote Ode: "We are being kept in semidarkened rooms; our hands are tied day and night; bright lights are kept burning all night and because of the constant noise...
...fraud, error and abuse" are on the increase among both students and schools. Defaults on low-interest federally insured student loans have totaled $668 million since 1967. And a report by HEW'S inspector general says the incidence of fraud and abuse in the $3.6 billion spent on five major student-financial-aid programs may run as high...
...known that he planned to retire from the council and devote his time to consulting, lecturing and writing a book on industrial relations. He will also pursue his hobby, growing apples in his Alta, Calif., orchard. The council decided that Kerr was an indispensable man: after five years and 35 comprehensive reports, it has announced it will close its doors at the end of this month...
...center for troubled priests and nuns. When the Dutch Council of Churches took what he considered too tolerant a line on abortion and homosexuality, he unilaterally pulled out of it, while The Netherland's six other bishops remained in. Rejecting the curriculum of the Dutch church's five official theological schools, he established a now thriving traditionalist seminary...