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...striking photographs that accompany the story, Photographer Neil Leifer spent four days in basic training with a brigade at Fort Knox, Ky., while Photographer Mark Meyer visited a strategic Air Force base in the Northeast and joined a B-52 bomber crew on a simulated nuclear-alert mission. After getting a look at a Boeing air-launched cruise missile plant in Seattle, Meyer moved on to Eglin Air Force base in Florida, where he covered one of the largest peacetime parachute drops in U.S. history. Says he: "It's one thing to read about military hardware in the newspapers...
...Richards Fort Thomas, Ky...
...Republican Army connections, and an ousted Prime Minister with alleged ties to South African industrialists. The gang, it appears, was intent on a coup to capture the impoverished Caribbean island of Dominica (pop. 81,000), a true banana republic (70% of exports) that is physically no bigger than Lexington, Ky...
...trade with the West and reduce Hungary's dependence on the Soviet Union and other Comecon countries, which still buy roughly 40% of the nation's exports. Some impressive examples of Hungarian products are already being exported to the West. Portland, Ore., San Mateo, Calif., and Louisville, Ky., will soon have Hungarian-American-built Crown-Ikarus buses rolling down their streets. Hungarian officials hope the Soviet Union will recognize that it has the choice of letting its satellites improve their economies-or risking a Polish-style blowup. -By John S. DeMott...
DIED. Harland Sanders, 90, the goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white suits and black string ties to sell franchised eateries serving chicken parts laced with a secret blend of herbs and spices and pressure-cooked for 12 min. In 1964 he sold the business for $2 million to Nashville Businessmen Jack Massey and John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky...