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...Dewar's Scotch "Profile" advertisementwidely published in magazines described him as"Energetic, warm, penetrating. Driven by a thirstfor new knowledge that may lead to new truths...
...Soviet atomic scientists and weapons designers, either already unemployed or about to lose their job, will sell their bomb- building skills to foreign countries eager to become nuclear powers. "Just half a dozen could make a crucial difference" to the weapons program of a Third World nation, says Michael Dewar, deputy director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies...
...sense, William Coupon is two different photographers. The first works in the world of mainstream commercial photography, shooting everything from advertising campaigns for clients such as Nike and Dewar's Scotch to magazine covers, including portraits of Robert Bork, Pat Robertson and Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush for TIME. The other William Coupon is endlessly fascinated with ethnic groups whose cultures are as far from the mainstream as they can be. He has traveled to record dramatic images of Norwegian Lapps, , Australian Aborigines, Tarahumara Indians in Mexico and members of a dozen other groups...
Perhaps the most important reason for Western confidence, though, is that the Soviet Union's system of nuclear command and control has at least as many checks and balances as the U.S.'s, and perhaps more. Says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies: "There are several stages, an intricate system of codes and identifications, before nuclear weapons can be fired from the ground, from airplanes or from submarines." The system provides for two "footballs," while the U.S. has but one. To ready nuclear warheads for a launch, the codes from both footballs...
Last month he returned from a torturous assignment in the Persian Gulf for ABC Radio News. After weeks of dodging Scuds and eating bad hotel food -- not to mention going without a sip of his favorite fuel, Dewar's White Label Scotch -- he parachuted into Kuwait as an eyewitness to war's inferno and freedom's jubilation. He watched wide-eyed Kuwaiti women flirt with their liberators. He saw Marines reclaim the U.S. embassy. And he surveyed the surreal traffic jam of bombed vehicles on the highway to Basra. "It was nightmarish," he says, "partly because it was so perfectly...