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...million, 60,000-sq.-ft. command center, which was built in California and shipped to Sarajevo for the Winter Olympics, has been brought back home and upgraded. Now even Kublai Khan, or George Lucas, would be overwhelmed by this pleasure dome of electronic wizardry: twelve editing rooms rather than the seven used in Sarajevo, 96 videotape recorders rather than 36, and a wall of 97 TV monitors that will carry simultaneous pictures from nearly every stadium, arena, swimming pool and open field in the area...
DIED. Oqirhuyakt, 84, former Mongolian warlord and last lineal descendant of Genghis Khan, the 13th century Mongol military genius whose horse-borne hordes conquered China and menaced all of Central Asia; of cancer; in Huhehot, Inner Mongolia. Because of his hereditary status, his large following and his cooperation with the new regime in Peking after 1949, Oqirhuyakt (the single-name form is common for Mongolians) became a regional official. The ashes of Genghis' 32nd-generation descendant will rest in the tomb of his illustrious ancestors on the Ordos Plateau...
...tell about Winston Churchill, British lords and ladies, Khrushchev, Castro, the CIA, and even some movie stars. The last few pages are devoted to Margaret Truman, for whom Daniel appears to have great respect. Daniel even manages to take a shot at Harvard in the midst; on Aga Khan IV '59--who is revered as a god by his subjects--he writes: "You might say he is the only divinity with a degree from Harvard, at though some other Harvard graduates have intimations of immortality...
...that Spock is all that hard to find. Most viewers of the last Star Trek (subtitled The Wrath of Khan) already have a pretty good idea of where to look for whatever was left of him after that film's ambiguously tragic denouement. The suspense of this handsome sequel derives largely from anxiety about the form in which he will be rediscovered and from the question of whether he can be restored to something like his familiar dimensions. What if he comes back with rounded earlobes or a beetling brow...
...force in Afghanistan. The target of this unprecedented show of force was not so much the rebels as the civilians, who have apparently been lending them support. "The Soviets," charged Karen McKay, director of the Washington-based Committee for a Free Afghanistan, "have launched a genocidal program that Genghis Khan would have admired...