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...problem with this type of coverage is that NBC has eliminated the build-up of dramatic sports stories that are usually the most entertaining part of the Olympics. Instead of covering anything completely, they show everything incompletely...
...compared this record with that of President Reagan, who he said has exacerbated the nation's economic predicament. "Six years ago, the White House proposed, and Congress approved, the biggest revenue cut and thebiggest Pentagon build-up in our history, whilepromising to balance the budget by 1985," he said...
...ability of America and her allies to defend themselves in the case of a Soviet attack in Europe or Asia. Since World War II, Moscow has maintained--at great cost to its economy and standard of living--massive conventional forces poised for an invasion of West Germany. This build-up is anything but "peaceful" and "defensive"; no country needs three times as many tanks as its enemy to protect herself...
Castro's second build-up campaign is aimed at the Cuban physique. At 60, the Cuban leader is on a health jag, exhorting his people to exercise regularly, participate in sports and shed unnecessary weight. Two years ago, to establish his credibility in an antismoking campaign, Castro gave up his trademark cigars. But the results of the health campaign have been mixed. Officials claim that tobacco consumption dropped 23% in the campaign's first year, but not all Cubans have become converts to clean living. On the compulsory Saturday workday, a foursome of male goldbrickers sharing a bottle of bootleg...
Elsewhere in the Far East, the build-up of Soviet land forces, which has been going on gradually for 20 years, is quickening. Some 550,000 Soviet troops now line the 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border. Moreover, some 147 SS-20 missiles are deployed in the Soviet Far East, each carrying three warheads. Peking's suspicion of Moscow is heightened by the growing Soviet naval presence off China's coast, underscored by Moscow's apparent success in persuading North Korea to grant access to the ports of Wonsan and Nampo and overflight rights that permit reconnaissance missions along China...