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INFINITE PATIENCE? As the United States engages in the biggest mobilization since the Gulf War, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warns that the coming campaign could be long and bloody. The Pentagon is taking its time, but how much longer will Americans be willing to wait?
Noted
"The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death."
MAULANA INYADULLAH, Afghan mujahedin fighter, on why the soldiers of the Taliban have no fear of a possible invasion by U.S. forces and their allies
Prime Number
$35 billion is the estimated cost to insurers of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The industry says it will sharply limit coverage of terrorism acts
Omen
150 college students in Berkeley, California—the peacenik capital of the world—held a pro-war rally last week, calling for the United States to "whip terrorism"
Winners
RUDY GIULIANI
Rock of New York wins 15% of Republican mayoral primary vote on write-ins. Probably a shoo-in to win next year's Miss America contest
ANGELINA JOLIE
U.N. goodwill ambassador donates $1 million to help suffering Afghan refugees. That almost makes up for the crime that was Original Sin
MICHAEL JORDAN
Aging MJ returns to the NBA; will donate his entire salary to terrorism victims. Nike to come out with slamming new "Air Rocking Chair"
Losers
BILL MAHER
Politically Incorrect host is castigated by White House after politically incorrect quip. In war, comedy is always the first casualty
STARBUCKS
Coffee giant apologizes after a N.Y. franchise charges rescue workers $130 for water. So this is why the rest of the world hates globalization
HALIFAX POLICE
Canadian cops suspend a police officer who pitched in at the WTC site without permission. Where has the spirit of Dudley Do-Right gone?
Milestones
By CHANTAL McLAUGHLIN
DIED. VICTOR WONG, 74, Chinese-American artist, journalist and actor; near Locke, California. A member of San Francisco's "beat" scene in the 1950s, Wong became one of the first ethnic Chinese broadcast reporters in the U.S. Although he suffered from Bell's palsy, casting directors found his looks perfect for the wise-old-man roles he played in films such as The Joy Luck Club and The Last Emperor.
DIED. ISAAC STERN, 81, dynamic violinist who was an ardent supporter of Israel and a tireless advocate of music education and government funding of the arts; in New York City. Stern, who spearheaded a 1960 effort that saved Carnegie Hall from demolition, is one of the most recorded classical musicians in history (see Eulogy).
DIED. SAAD MOURTADA, 78, diplomat who became Egypt's first ambassador to Israel in 1980, a year after the two countries signed a landmark peace agreement; in Falls Church, Virginia. He was recalled in 1982 after a massacre of several hundred Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied West Beirut.
DIED. NGUYEN TON HOAN, 84, founding member of the Dai Viet party, which opposed French and later communist rule in Vietnam; in Mountain View, California. After General Duong Van Minh was deposed as head of South Vietnam's government in 1964, Nguyen returned from exile in France and served as Vice Premier, but his reformist views clashed with those of the U.S.-backed military leaders and he resigned after eight months.
DIED. GORDON REECE, 71, dapper television producer and p.r. wizard who transformed Margaret Thatcher's image during her successful 1979 campaign for Prime Minister by advising her on hairstyle, wardrobe, body language and speaking skills; in London. Reece was knighted in 1986.
Eulogy
By EMANUEL AX, concert pianist
I first met ISAAC STERN when I was a young pianist just beginning to perform. I was so bowled over by the force of his personality and reputation that it was many years before I realized he was not 7 ft. tall. One of the thrills of being on stage with him was the feeling of belonging he exuded. Once, after a concert in which he had played particularly brilliantly, he said to the rest of us, "You know, I'm just a stage animal." It was that quality that gave us the feeling that there was no need to be afraid or nervous—we were there to share music, and the goal was a kind of exaltation through music. A letter to the New York Times from one of his devotees sums up how we all feel: that in any but medical terms, the cause of his death, "heart failure," was the farthest thing from the truth. The one constant in his life was that his heart never failed.
21 Years Ago In TIME
If the U. S. decides to attack Afghanistan, it won't be the first so-called superpower to test its might against the country. Partly threatened by the growth of Islamic fundamentalists in Central Asia, the Soviet Union invaded in 1980 with an estimated 50,000 soldiers, provoking the censure of the West—and the rage of the Muslim world.
"The Saudi Arabia-based Islamic World League declared that 'the communist aggression aims at eliminating the Muslim presence in Afghanistan'... Even Iran's fanatical leaders denounced the Soviet invasion. During an audience with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Soviet Ambassador to Iran Vladimir Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against cia and Zionist agents, two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said the Soviets would come to grief if they remained in Afghanistan.'"
TIME, Jan. 14, 1980
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