Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...
Even back in the '40s, when prices were a lot lower, one went to Lipp's or the Flore only on special occasions. For hanging around, there were cheaper places, the Royal or the Bonaparte or the Mabillon. And though St. Germain is still full of wealthy and successful people, the artistic center seems to be moving back to the Right Bank, to the slummy area being rapidly gentrified between those two new cultural real estate projects, the flamboyantly ugly Beaubourg art museum and the unflamboyantly ugly Bastille Opera. "Try the Cafe Beaubourg," says one young American...
...units of its own, the 82nd paratroopers and the 101st Airborne Division. The Army now has seven light divisions, so called because they are highly mobile forces boasting most of the same fighting capabilities as the Marines. On top of that, the Pentagon has developed the 38,000-troop Special Operations Forces which include the Navy's sea, air and land SEAL forces; the Air Force's First Special Operations Wing; and the Army's highly trained Ranger force, for use against terrorists and in guerrilla warfare...
...equipped with their own close air support, while the Army has to depend on the Air Force. The Army's mobile divisions, on the other hand, can drop on targets from aircraft. But to gain such mobility, they must travel with less artillery and heavy armor. The lightly armed Special Operations Forces are equipped to make lightning raids behind enemy front lines. Still, there is enormous overlap between the three separate forces. Taken together, they are simply too much of a good thing...
Five minutes after Lusia arrived, an officer announced that our plane, a Tu- 154, was ready. A dozen KGB agents accompanied us on our special flight. We were too relieved at being reunited to worry about where we were headed -- we didn't care if it was to the ends of the earth. In Gorky we were loaded into another minibus. "Where are we going?" Lusia asked our anonymous escorts...