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...would draw the people for his Administration. It has not really worked out that way. Task forces are quietly shaping ideas for the transition and the programs that will follow should Reagan win. But the assault force that, in a change in Government, would descend on Washington and take command remains largely unknown. The Reagan people have nearly 250 persons on their key advisory committees, the nucleus of a talent bank that the Governor has promised will be in place and running a few days of his Jan. 20 Inauguration if he wins the election. Chief of Staff Edwin Meese...
...Titans' targets are secret, but experts believe that they are aimed at Soviet nuclear missile command centers and perhaps other targets like submarine bases. Explained a defense analyst: "For example, you might know that a Soviet command and control center is in a Soviet mountain, but not exactly where. Titan II's large warhead could be used to dig up the mountain...
...much more parochial and intense. Cleburne County Judge Dan Verser asked at a hearing at Little Rock Air Force Base whether he should worry when warning lights flash and sirens howl at a Titan silo near his farm in Heber Springs, 25 miles east of Damascus. Colonel John Moser, commander of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing at Little Rock, replied that "99 times out of 100" the warnings are caused by equipment failure and "there is no need to evacuate until you're told to evacuate." Moser was quickly overruled by Lieut. General Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., vice commander...
...year before, Saddam fled to Syria and Egypt. In Cairo he studied law and joined the Baath Party, a revolutionary group of Arab nationalists. He returned to Iraq in 1963, and by the time the Baathists staged their 1968 coup under General Bakr, Saddam had become second in command. He set up his own secret police organization, suppressed all challengers, and soon became the real power in the country...
...unless its ranks have been seriously depleted, only one female each year gives birth to a litter. Even more notable, some studies suggest, the alpha male (or executive wolf), who makes all pack decisions and conducts the hunt, tends not to breed-perhaps because it would distract him from command. Says Fox primly: Man needs to "emulate the wolf ... in exercising greater dominion over sexuality and incredible reproductive potential...