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When Muslim fundamentalists disable a crucial Soviet oil refinery, Moscow works out a cold-blooded scheme to prevent the country's economy from collapsing: KGB agents blow up a group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies...
Chalk one up for mischievous schoolchildren. Britain's House of Commons last week struck down a longtime classroom practice: punishment by the cane. The bill abolishing corporal punishment in state-run schools passed by a bare 231 to 230. An earlier version would have retained caning while allowing parents to exempt their children from the practice, but critics charged that the measure would divide students into "beatables" and "unbeatables." Last week's final approval came despite the Education Minister's warning that "the abolition of corporal punishment would send out wrong signals...
Hand in hand with commerce goes technology, and the tools of technology were mostly baptized in the U.S. The French still cling to ordinateur instead of computer, but in Italy even schoolchildren call it by its American name. Also floppy disks, lasers, compact disks, software. Germans buy Tapes, not Magnetbander. In fact, they call the whole field hitec...
Most American schoolchildren learn that Nebraska's outstanding political feature is its unique unicameral legislature. Last week voters in a statewide primary gave Nebraska an even more memorable feature: two women, Republican State Treasurer Kay Orr and Democrat Helen Boosalis, won their parties' nominations for Governor, thus setting the stage for the first all-woman gubernatorial race in U.S. history...
...wife Doris, 47, calmly unloaded three gasoline bombs, nine handguns and four rifles. Waving bizarre political tracts (one was headlined ZERO-INFINITY), Young announced in the school office, "This is a revolution." Doris, telling some teachers that there was to be a surprise birthday party, lured 167 schoolchildren and adults into a first-grade classroom, where they stood at gunpoint in frightened silence. Declaring that he had enough explosives to "wipe out Cokeville," Young told Principal Max Excell that he wanted a whopping ransom of $2 million a hostage, as well as a talk with President Reagan. "Why Cokeville?" asked...