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That spare-no-expense approach can apply to every facet of moviemaking. Disney has gone about $5 million over budget on Dick Tracy, in part because the studio decided, five months after the film had been shot, to upgrade the 57 matte-painting backdrops that were used to help create a comic-book appearance. The improved matte work includes twinkling lights and moving boats and cars. Paramount had to frantically accelerate the editing of Days of Thunder to get the film ready for its summer release. The speedup meant that crews had to work around the clock, piling up mountains...
...their attempt to define a new role, the Marines have reoriented themselves toward becoming a contingency force for low-intensity conflicts. What unnerves the Marines is that, as Grenada and Panama demonstrated, other armed services are grabbing the action. Acting on its post-Vietnam review, the Army has added five light divisions to two legendary units of its own, the 82nd paratroopers and the 101st Airborne Division. The Army now has seven light divisions, so called because they are highly mobile forces boasting most of the same fighting capabilities as the Marines. On top of that, the Pentagon has developed...
Earlier this month General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted that the Pentagon budget would be slashed 25% to $218 billion in five years. For the Army, that would mean a one-third cut in personnel, to 500 million. For the Marines, a proportional reduction would mean losing 60,000 of its 195,000 Marines...
...June Andrei Amalrik, who wrote Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? and as a result was imprisoned for five years for defaming the Soviet state, gave a copy of Reflections to a Dutch correspondent. On July 10, a few days after returning to the Installation and exactly seven years after my clash with Khrushchev over nuclear testing, I turned on the BBC or VOA and heard my name. The announcer reported that on July 6 the Dutch newspaper Het Parool had published my article...
...like Turchin, he soon found himself out of a job. In 1976 he helped organize the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, part of an organization set up by Soviet dissidents to monitor human rights violations, but two years later he was sentenced to seven years in a labor camp and five of internal exile for anti-Soviet activities. He suffered extremely harsh treatment. At the end of Orlov's trial, a scuffle broke out when his friends were barred from entering the courtroom to hear the verdict. I hit one KGB agent; Lusia, receiving a sharp blow to the neck from...