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...real estate, the Kuwaitis have moved rapidly into the U.S. Sunbelt. They own the 30-story Atlanta Hilton Hotel, as well as all of South Carolina's Kiawah Island, a resort that has generated some $200 million in revenues for the Kuwaitis on an original investment of only $17.4 million. Kuwait owns parcels of real estate in New Orleans, Boston and Washington, D.C., including office space now rented by the General Services Administration...
American weapons are far from perfect; so, concludes Fallows, is the force that must use them. He repeats many of the common arguments about the volunteer army as employer of last resort. For example, this astounding statistic--in 1980, of the 100,860 men who were serving their first term as enlisted men in the infantry or armor artillery, exactly 25 (men, not per cent) had college degrees. But he adds new dimensions to the usual discussion of social inequality by stressing he military effects of an all-poor army. "I think the mixture of middle-class...
...some in apparent hope that Wildmon would excuse them from the boycott hit list if they would go and sin no more. Wildmon in turn announced: "I think consultation and conversation and compromise are far superior to confrontation. We've always said that a boycott is a last resort." Exulted Cal Thomas, vice president of communications for the Moral Majority: "It's like the prime rate. When No. 1 announces, a lot of others follow. The response we've gotten from advertisers since the Procter & Gamble speech has been very gratifying...
...woman who worked as a maid at condominiums in Aspen, Colo., says, "The people used to leave a little cocaine on the table as a tip." Aspen, in fact, is known in faster circles as Toot City because it is so pervaded by coke. In another Colorado mountain resort, Telluride, six prominent citizens, including a former councilwoman, were charged last month with trafficking in cocaine. Says Mark Pautler, director of the police task force that made the arrests: "We have a strong feeling that a lot of people in Telluride knew what was going on but were looking the other...
...then, Stripes plays on the old hybrid theme used in Buck Privates, No Time for Sergeants, and all of the innumerable imitations that followed: Misfit joins Army as last resort, misfit has several run-ins with the tough drill sergeant, misfit winds up proving his heroism and thereby gaining the sergeant's respect...