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...place in the medium-size farming community of Dasht-e-Rivat (pop. 1,800 in the past), many of whose inhabitants fled on the third day of bombing in April 1982. Scrambling up a goat path into the 14,000-ft. mountains along the southern edge of the Hindu Kush, the fugitives took nothing with them but thin clothing, a little bread and some dried mulberry flour. For 40 days they hid behind boulders and in mountain caves. Each night it snowed; each day they saw Soviet planes bomb and strafe the valley below. The fatalities included 40 adults...
...least not right away. Despite Elway's expressed desire to play on the West Coast, Baltimore stubbornly did not trade the pick to San Diego, Seattle or the Los Angeles Raiders. "I don't want to be a jerk or anything," Elway told Colts Coach Frank Kush, "but we [meaning Elway, his agent Marvin Demoff and his father Jack, the head football coach at San Jose State] have been telling you for three months I'm not going to play in Baltimore." Elway then called a press conference to declare, ''Right now, it looks like...
Gambling was an embarrassing analogy to Kush, whose No. 1 draft choice of 1982, Ohio State Quarterback Art Schlichter, ran up a reported six-figure tab with bookies and recently turned to the FBI for protection. Going 0-8-1 on the field last year in his first N.F.L. season, Kush is 0-9 this year in the Supreme Court, which decided that he would have to defend himself against charges stemming from a sideline assault case brought by a former punter at Arizona State. That incident four seasons ago ended Rush's prosperous 22-year college coaching career...
...restrictions on journalists moving about the country, word started trickling out only last week. According to Afghan refugees newly arrived in Pakistan, a fuel tanker in a military convoy collided with another military truck 70 miles north of Kabul, in the 1.7-mile-long Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains. Initial reports said that there was a fiery explosion. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Later press estimates put the total number of deaths at between...
...after day, the ominous whine and then the gray-green shapes of Soviet Mi-8, Mi-24 and Mi-6 helicopters appeared like a horde of bloated locusts over the green fields and mountain streams. The jagged, snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush, the mountain chain that rings the valley, muted the roar of the bombing, making it sound like distant thunder...