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...Soviets marshal their own numbers to show that a rough parity in theater nuclear weapons already exists between NATO and the U.S.S.R. How so? Because Moscow counts "delivery systems" differently. Soviet estimates for NATO include the American submarines and aircraft based in Europe that are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The Soviets also count British and French bombers and missiles, even though the French are not part of the NATO military structure. According to the Soviet count there are 986 NATO delivery systems. Their own total, they say, is 975. But this does not include all Soviet fighter-bombers...
...stockade at Fort Meade, Md., last week, Hinckley jammed the lock to his cell with a piece of cracker-box cardboard. Then he stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped off the chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic marshal could climb an exterior wall and reach through a window to cut him loose from outside. For the next half-hour Hinckley lay on his cell...
...jumped out to an early lead, winning five out of the first six events, but Harvard managed to stay close, due to the gutsy performance of long-distance freestyler Shelby Calvert. The junior from the Marshal Islands--who recently transferred from West Point--swam back-to-back races, placing first in the 1000-yd. free (10:46) and second in the 200-yd. freestyle by a scant four seconds. Ironwoman Calvert later won the 500 free in 5:13 as Harvard dominated the long-distance events...
...related and perhaps even more astonishing event has been the resurrection of a legendary patriotic figure after decades of official oblivion: Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the military hero who was a bitter foe of the Soviet Union and the person the Poles consider the father of their modern country. As chief of state in 1920, Pilsudski repulsed a Soviet invasion by routing the advancing Red Army at the Battle of Warsaw...
...bourgeois dictator" and an "agent of the Western powers." Although he ran a tough military government from 1926 to 1935, when he died, Pilsudski remained a symbol of proud Polish nationalism. Poles were galvanized last week as the state-owned television suddenly broadcast flickering newsreels of the Marshal and played the marching songs so closely associated with his career...