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...capture the heavily defended airport. Within two days government reinforcements closed in, and Soviet aircraft went to work. After three days of fighting, the mujahedin withdrew; according to TASS, twelve Afghan troops and 173 insurgents died (the latter figure possibly includes civilian casualties). The Kunduz affair apparently triggered a shake-up in the Afghan military. TASS reported that Najibullah had appointed a new Defense Minister and army chief of staff...
...Less clear was that taking favors from Richard Nixon was a way of getting in line for trouble. Barbara Bush seems to have sensed this when she warned her husband not to let Nixon saddle him with the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. This was during the shake-up following Nixon's re-election in 1972, when Watergate was a faint underground rumble. Nixon, in the flush of victory, was going to do wonders, mainly by firing or demoting almost everyone in sight -- but not George Bush. "He'd do anything for the cause," Nixon privately told John Ehrlichman...
Overall, a Crimson poll showed more students picked Leverett first than any other house. Eliot, Quincy and Winthrop Houses followed Leverett. In a shake-up at the bottom of the list, Lowell House sank to 11th displacing all but one Quad House...
...days the rumors flew between the U.S. and Panama: a major shake-up was expected momentarily in the troubled Latin country. At 5:30 p.m. last Thursday, President Eric Arturo Delvalle, 51, appeared on nationwide television ahead of the evening news. Reading from a script, Delvalle told stunned viewers that he had asked for the resignation of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 50, the military strongman who has run Panama for the past five years. Delvalle said he had requested Noriega to "voluntarily step aside" while the U.S. investigated drug-trafficking charges that federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa...
...management will transfer much of its decision-making authority to five newly created groups that will act almost like separate companies. "This is a major decentralization," said Akers. "The benefit will be that our management team will spend less time at corporate headquarters and more time with customers." The shake-up, which Akers called "my idea," squelched suspicions that the 53-year-old chairman's authority might be eroding along with IBM's profits. Says Steven Milunovich, who follows the computer industry for the First Boston investment firm: "Akers wants to teach this elephant how to dance...