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...most forceful complaints about the CDC have been leveled by former Chief of Naval Operations Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. As the Navy's top commander in Vietnam, he ordered that Agent Orange be sprayed in the Mekong Delta region to destroy vegetation from which the Vietcong regularly launched ambushes against U.S. patrol boats. In 1988 Zumwalt's son Elmo III, a former lieutenant who had served in the "brown-water Navy," died from a rare lymphoma. Zumwalt believes his son's exposure to Agent Orange was responsible...
...weapons available to strike them." General John Chain, commander of the Strategic Air Command, insists that he must have 75 B-2 Stealth bombers, each carrying 16 weapons, to offset the START limit on missile-delivered nukes. "Forty-nine hundred missile-carried warheads," says Chain, "are not enough to destroy the Soviet Union...
...leaving half allied with the Soviet Union, half with the U.S. Ready to reunify the country by force -- and, with help from Moscow, strong enough to dare it -- North Korea sent its tanks south across the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. Communist leader Kim Il Sung hoped to destroy the U.S.-backed regime of South Korean President Syngman Rhee in a bold blitzkrieg. Kim nearly succeeded before U.S. troops and a hastily assembled United Nations force pushed the North Koreans back to the Yalu River on the Chinese border, prompting the intervention of a 1.2 million-man Chinese army...
Robocop II is about the individual, in this case Alex Murphy, and his battle with the forces of society which threaten to destroy his already fragile humanity. The film parodies--rather darkly--how both advances in technology and the rise of huge corporations have their menacing sides...
Shamir might well be unable to shift away from this adamant position even if he wanted to. Any softening of his line toward negotiations with the Palestinians would be sure to be rejected by hard-line minor parties and could easily destroy his coalition. That government, which squeaked through to confirmation with only 62 votes in the 120-seat Knesset, is unlikely to last until 1992, when elections are scheduled. Its fall might be the only thing that could bring better U.S.-Israeli relations. If Baker cannot wait to see whether and how soon that happens, Shamir's number...