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...alarming and perplexing void that followed Haig's resignation last week, the belief took root that his consuming appetite for power was at least partly responsible for his demise. He wanted to be President. He wanted the one position still denied him in his singular zeal to straighten out this nation and reorder the world...
Virtually forgotten amid the headlines from the Middle East and South Atlantic is a stubborn conflict in Afghanistan, where determined guerrillas continue to resist a 100,000-strong Soviet occupation force. Last month, in the largest operation since their December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviets tried to root out the well-disciplined mujahedin of the lush Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul. TIME's William Dowell spent 22 days, disguised in a native tunic and baggy pantaloons, trekking over 16,000-ft. passes with a guerrilla caravan in order to witness the combat. Dowell's report...
...cast of this acute, disturbing first novel inhabits the Florida of all-night bowling alleys, Cuban diners and lesbian discos, caroming from the back streets of Key West to the tile-roofed mansions of Miami. There is no one to root for in The South Florida Book of the Dead-except the author-but its Me-generation drug pushers are an indelible crew, acting out new therapies while measuring their "interpersonal relationships" in grams...
Nakashima's forms follow nature. His famous coffee tables are made of planks sliced from the trunk or root systems of such trees as the redwood or Eng lish walnut. Their natural configuration remains unchanged. So do natural breaks in the wood, which Nakashima holds to gether with small pieces of wood shaped like butterflies...
...means the betrayal of dreams. Indeed, it means the betrayal of some of the elemental ideals of the republic. It means a repudiation of what is noble in the American tradition of government, and its replacement with meanness, injustice, parochialism, and even a measure of insanity. It means, at root, privileges for a few over equity for all. Claiming to offer the nation a grand dream, this Administration has instead delivered a dreadful reality...