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...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations a month ago, and the Afghanistan issue will probably be debated in the U.N. General Assembly next month. Most Western press coverage of the conflict has come from listening posts in Pakistan and India and from reporters who have slipped into rebel-held territory. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott received a rare visa from the Afghan government and last week sent this report from Kabul...
...insurgents still face a host of problems, some of them self-inflicted. Despite the late Anwar Sadat's revelation that Egypt has served as a channel for the U.S. to infiltrate Soviet-designed weapons to the rebels, the mujahedin insist that they still rely primarily on what they can capture from their fallen or routed enemies. They have acquired from the outside, mainly the U.S., China and Egypt, some antiaircraft guns and antitank weapons, but not in sufficient quantity to neutralize the MiGs, helicopter gunships and heavy armor that throw such devastating firepower against rebel encampments and villages...
...When a rebel band does get hold of a modern Kalashnikov, the weapon is likely to end up as a status symbol in the hands of the tribal elder, while the younger warriors, men with better eyesight and surer footing, are left to fight with bolt-action British Lee-Enfield rifles...
Close-Up #2; Rebel--In the beginning of the movie, James Dean is drunk in a police station. He looks remarkably young, but has an undeniable aura of cool. Sometimes, though, it's embarrassing to watch him. During one scene he punches a desk and yells that no one understands him. More adolescence. The audience laughs...
Backround #4; The role of the scriptwriter--Rebel Without A Causeis set in California and is ostensibly about the problems of juvenile delinquents. Dean plays an adolescent, whom his family does not understand, who is driven to various deeds of honor. The entire movie takes place during one 22-hour period--Dean's first day at a new high school. During this day, Dean will have to try to win acceptance into a gang at school and solve the problems of alienation. This is accomplished by driving a car vary fast toward a cliff in a game of chicken with...