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Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...command-listening to the language of men and machine that he knows so well. After 19 years of undersea duty, he can automatically feel and gauge a ship's rhythm...
According to the Administration scenario, the President and key advisers would prepare to be whisked aboard the "doomsday plane," a 747 specially fitted to serve as the nation's Emergency Airborne Command Post. Meanwhile, citizens would pack their cars with food, water, clothes, tools and important papers (Social Security card, credit cards and a will), city dwellers would head out into the countryside to take shelter in predesignated buildings. Those unable to leave would be herded into public fallout shelters. Two weeks later, survivors would come out and begin to rebuild society, guided by plans for food rationing, banking...
...added that the Cabinet had made "no decision" about an invasion. The U.S. chose to put the best possible interpretation on that carefully hedged assurance. Said one U.S. official: "We take Prime Minister Begin at his word." In Lebanon, P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, meeting with his organization's high command around a conference table in a subbasement deep beneath a Beirut apartment building, argued that it is to the P.L.O.'s advantage to let the Israelis strike first, both because he believes they would sustain heavy casualties and because they would be branded as the aggressors. Arafat has told his restless...
...orchestra comes by his music loving naturally. Growing up in Los Angeles, Slatkin heard his violinist father and cellist mother play chamber music regularly as half of the Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin on the podium maintains tight control over his orchestra; his performances are marked by precision and a command of musical architecture that permits him to bring off unwieldly pieces like Rachmaninoffs uncut Second Symphony...