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...Volga sedans," TIME Correspondent David DeVoss reported from the Afghan capital. "Every night, just before 11 p.m. curfew, fleets of armored personnel carriers roll into Kabul from depots outside. Bristling with four machine guns each, they rumble alongside the frozen Kabul River past shuttered mosques and deserted bazaars, and halt momentarily in front of each government building. The elite paratroops who alight do not doze or socialize like the less disciplined Afghans from whom they assume command. Dressed in fur hats, bulky greatcoats and elephantine boots, they stand alert in the shadows waiting for the armored personnel carriers to pick...
Last week the U.N.'s World Food Program announced that it would halt shipments until the present stockpile is cleared. Bloomfield calls the situation "unbelievably tragic." Says he: "If there's no improvement in the next month, we'll be reaching a crisis point...
Investors in shares of silver-mining companies have also done well. Stocks listed on the red-hot Spokane regional exchange, which deals mainly in mining firms, are up 60% since mid-November. Last Wednesday, an avalanche of buy orders forced the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading for several hours in the shares of Hecla Mining, which since early 1979 has climbed from $5.25 per share...
After hitting a first period peak, the Harvard hockey roller coaster swerved, dipped, plunged and finally lurched to a halt as the erratic icemen dropped a 6-2 decision to Boston College at the Bright Center last night...
Hardest hit is the construction industry, which has come to an almost total halt. Dozens of huge apartment complexes in Tehran stand unfinished. One example of the pervasive industrial malaise is the Melli shoe factory, which used to export 11 million pairs of shoes a year to the Soviet bloc. Production at the Melli plant, now run by production at the Melli plant, now run by a workers' council, is down to 2 million pairs a year, scarcely enough for domestic consumption. The council claims that the problem is lack of spare parts and materials; the real problem...