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...such detailed analysis can be applied to Jimmy Carter. He came in his glistening Marine helicopter through a clear and soft Rome night last week to start his new European adventure, settling in the shadows of the Quirinale Palace, which sits atop the highest of the Eternal City's seven hills, a panorama of enduring dignity and beauty...
When reporting for service, the draftee is channeled into a military branch. Though he can indicate his preference, he must accept the draft board's decision. Generally, those with good records and the highest intelligence are sent to the air force, the strategic rocket forces or the navy. Non-Slavs, however, are usually excluded from these elite units. Says Rand Corporation Analyst S. Enders Wimbush: "Soldiers are clearly recruited in a way that reflects the worries of society. The average Russian citizen and Soviet decision maker have questions about the allegiance of the non-Slav, especially the Central Asian." Typically...
Countless espionage thrillers and spy movies have celebrated its exploits to Soviet citizens. Officers of the organization are regularly awarded the country's highest decorations, and their chief, Yuri Andropov, 66, is a member of the ruling Politburo. Andropov himself has said that a typical member of his agency is "a man of pure honesty and enormous personal courage, implacable in the struggle against enemies, stern in the name of duty, humane and prepared to sacrifice himself for the people's cause." The object of this official adulation is the Committee for State Security-acronym...
...even at the expense of a recession, has all along been the objective of the Federal Reserve's eight-month-old tight monetary policy. By steadfastly holding down the growth rate of the nation's money supply, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker has pushed interest rates to their highest levels in a century, slowed borrowing by businesses and individuals alike, and sent the housing and auto industries into a tail spin...
...Guinness Book is proof that spectators, no less than performers, have been thoroughly infected with the obsession of recorditis. The public avidly eats up records of just about everything or earth: the biggest or highest or fastest or heaviest or deepest or oddest of natural or manmade wonders. Just such a Guinness Book has offered since it first came out in 1955. It has now sold 40 million copies in 23 languages worldwide, 25 million in the U.S. alone...