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...refusing to be intimidated, twenty years later. Vito returns to draw an ugly line down the old man's belly with a stiletto. He has succumbed to the revenge ethic. The final five minutes of the film show three of Michael's closest associates dying by his command--his brother, his greatest rival partner and his oldest family retainer. But Vito's revenge was satisfying and to an extent just: Michael's leaves him empty and alone in his chateau on Lake Tahoe, not much more than a pawn in a long cycle of violence, that he will have...
Instead, the recruits get tough, demanding and useful training under the command of their drill sergeants, men who wear their distinctive campaign hats down low over their eyes and who are the key to the whole operation. Most of the sergeants are Viet Nam veterans; all have had 13 to 20 years' service, and all have gone through a special training course hard enough to flunk 35% of those enrolled...
...composite contingency plan assumes a cutoff in oil to the West because of another Middle East war, an Arab oil embargo and a White House command to the U.S. military to lift the embargo. At this order, two massive U.S. strike groups would get under way. One would move through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean and into the Persian Gulf. It would include carriers whose jets would secure air control, and ships carrying at least a division of Marines (15,000 men). The second force would include two brigades of the 82nd Airborne Division...
...struggles for power that followed it. There had been no Chief of Staff since 1971 and no political commissar since 1973. Now, with Teng and Chang taking up army responsibilities-joining Yeh Chien-ying, who was named Defense Minister at the National People's Congress last month-the command structure of China's 2.5 million-man army is virtually complete...
...salaries as well as the number of judges. But recession-laden legislators are likely to turn a deaf ear. It may be that the judges' only recourse is a semi-serious ploy proposed by one of them during last week's meeting. Citing the Constitution's command that a judge's pay "shall not be diminished," he suggested suing, arguing that failure to give cost-of-living increases amounted to such a cut. One problem with the suit, of course, would be finding a federal judge whose interest in the case would not force...