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...Jackson sound like a Tracy-Hepburn love match, but in practice they don't give off many sparks. Matthau's performance is a less vibrant version of the character he played in Pete 'n' Tillie; he gets his laughs, but he doesn't command the screen. Jackson, though handed an opportunity ro run away with the film, merely tries to charm the audience to death...
SALT, which is widely known as the name for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, has now given birth to CAT, standing for talks on conventional arms transfers. "Aywax," meanwhile, is not used for polishing floors, but is the way AWACS is pronounced, signifying airborne warning and control system, a flying command post loaded with computers. Most descriptive of the terms in this arcane tongue is the acronym for the balance of terror concept known as "mutual assured destruction"; it, of course, is called...
...Commander in Chief, Jimmy Carter has plunged underwater on a nuclear attack submarine, climbed into the sky in an E-4A Airborne Command Post and descended underground to inspect Strategic Air Command headquarters. Last week the President renewed his military travels by helicoptering with his wife Rosalynn from Savannah, Ga., to the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower to view a series of combat exercises...
...meantime, commandos were attacking the southern Lebanese coastline. Missile boats strafed the port of Tyre, and air force planes bombed the Palestinian strongholds at Damur, Tyre and Ouzai. Frogmen landed at several points along the coast and attacked Palestinian command posts, killing several officials. In most cases, however, the Palestinian leadership had already left. In Beirut, top P.L.O. leaders had learned...
Nasser was listening very attentively. I went on, "It's only natural for changes to take place once we come to power, but this should never be at the expense of Egypt. We have unanimously elected you chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. Therefore, we cannot possibly differ from you. So it should be made clear to all that anyone who can cooperate with you may stay with us, and anyone who cannot may resign ..." But Nasser wouldn't let me finish. Livid with rage, he suddenly interrupted me to object, and burst into an attack as though...