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...government publicly--after all, he says, the money comes from the people, and the people elected the Thatcher government with its particular policies. But he thinks the present government underrates the contribution of the arts to the nation's employment and economic well-being. As Punch columnist Melvin Bragg states in a recent column, a grant from the Council doesn't carry a company like the RSC (providing only three million pounds in a ten to 12 million pound operation), but it helps it o be more solvent and to reach more people with more projects: "In short, here...
...Carter and Ronald Reagan to oppose Soviet intervention in the Persian Gulf area. But the exercises are only a short step toward that goal. The U.S. still lacks the power to act decisively in the region. The Rapid Deployment Force consists mainly of 56,000 troops borrowed from Fort Bragg's 18th Airborne Corps, and the Pentagon has neither the ships nor the planes to get them into action swiftly...
...state-by-state action has its limits in policing product safety. Says Texas Consumer Protection Director David Bragg: "The expert time, the tests and the lab procedures required are far too expensive for most states to take on. The Firestone 500 case [in which 7.5 million radial tires were recalled for defects] is an example of an action too big for state government to handle." Roberta Lynch, who helped lead an unsuccessful fight in the Illinois legislature for a workplace chemical warning regulation similar to the national rule canceled by OSHA, agrees that states can play only a selective role...
Weinberger shortly will give Kingston some actual troops to command: the 56,000 soldiers of the Army's 18th Airborne Corps, now based in Fort Bragg, N.C. Still the R.D.F. faces serious shortages both of manpower?most of the other units earmarked for it are also supposed to be available to reinforce NATO in an emergency?and of equipment. More than that, the airlift and sea-lift capacity does not exist to carry R.D.F. troops into battle as quickly as might be required...
...Wilson and Terpil had set up a training program in Libya in "espionage, sabotage and general psychological warfare." It included a laboratory near Tripoli for making assassination bombs disguised as ashtrays, lamps or teakettles. An active CIA agent, Pat Loomis, allegedly helped induce some Green Berets training at Fort Bragg, N.C., to leave the Special Forces and join the Libyan operation as instructors...