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...growing private sector want to attract foreign capital and credits by creating a "free-enterprise zone." Seoul and Tokyo would be only about an hour away by air -- if international flights were allowed to land here. But Vladivostok is home to the Soviet Pacific fleet, and the naval high command is more concerned with keeping out spies than with $ letting in businessmen -- or any other foreigners. To permit last week's conference, Shevardnadze had to enlist Mikhail Gorbachev's help in overruling the Ministry of Defense...
...wield the extra powers of the office to steer the country away from a centralized system, where everyone took orders from above, toward a society where decisions would come from below and be coordinated with a vastly reduced administrative center. The only problem is that the old chain of command has all but collapsed, and nothing has arisen to take its place. The President's decrees have been largely ignored by the country's restive republics, determined to grab as much authority as they can from Moscow. Leading the revolt has been the country's largest republic, Russia, and Gorbachev...
...explanation for the logistics shortfall is simple enough: the armed services are not interested in spending money on programs that do not produce weapons. Promotions go to those officers who command warships and fly warplanes. Says a Navy captain: "You don't make admiral driving freighters." Left to their own devices, Pentagon planners invariably opt for the furthest reaches of technology, seeking machines with almost magical properties. What they usually get are production delays, cost overruns and hardware that never lives up to its advance billing. They are again talking up their pet projects. "The Pentagon sees this crisis...
...view their service as a necessary repayment for whatever benefits they have derived from their reserve status; others seem moved by genuine patriotic ardor. Says Army Major George D. Lanning, 41, who last week left his job as superintendent of the Amity School District in Amity, Ore., to assume command of the 35- member 206th Transportation Detachment in Fort Lewis, Wash.: "The group is pumped...
...shooting war broke out, U.S. electronic-warfare planes such as the Air Force's F-4G "Wild Weasel" and the Navy's EA-6B would black out the radar and guidance systems of Iraqi air-defense missiles. "Command, control and communications are their Achilles' heel," says an Air Force officer. In this kind of combat, "they would have to do everything visually." Meanwhile, Saudi and U.S. AWACS planes would spot Iraqi aircraft as soon as they left their runways and direct F-15s and Navy F-14s to intercept them with Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles...