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...having hidden caches of "refire" missiles. That is a danger that looks real only to those who believe that a full-scale nuclear war could last over a period of weeks, even months. They fear that after absorbing half a dozen or more American strikes against missile-launching silos, command-and-control bunkers, and other critical "nodes" in the network of their political and military leadership structure, the Soviets would still be able, in the jargon of nukespeak...
...Egypt, bordering strategically on the suex Conel, has always been considered a hey to the success of military operations in the region; the assurance even of Egyptian neutrality in the event of American intervention over control of the oilfields of the Gulf States would greatly control the Soviet high command. Now Mubarak wants to perform a dangerous balancing act between the two superpowers, accepting $2 billion in American aid last year and then a few months later turning to Moncow for whatever extra...
...least one purpose of the Byzantine contra command structure is to allow U.S. military and intelligence personnel to conform with a rider attached to the 1983 Defense Department appropriations bill, passed unanimously by the House of Representatives last December. It forbids the Administration to use funds for "military equipment, military training or advice, or other support for military activities, to any group or individual, not part of a country's armed forces, for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua or provoking a military exchange between Nicaragua and Honduras...
...Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope. They allegedly handed the assignment to the Bulgarians, long known for their subservience to the Kremlin's wishes...
Goldman is enough of an insider to command attention to, if not total agreement with, such statements. He is also generous with caustic soundstage glimpses of movies in the making. Here is Dustin Hoffman on the set of Goldman's Marathon Man, browbeating an ailing and clearly enfeebled Laurence Olivier into walking around and around a large room with him, improvising a scene. Recalling this long ordeal, Goldman notes "Hoffman's need to put himself on at least equal footing with this sick old man." Someone else the author will probably not work with in the future...