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...squeeze. Among the 25 principal classes of armament, production has declined in 13 between 1977 and 1981. That drop may indicate that the Kremlin has built its arsenal up to strength. But it could also reflect the stagnation in the civilian economy, as producers fail to supply quality steel and as bottlenecks in rail transport hold up vital raw materials needed by defense contracts...
Shops closed quickly, but the surge of motorists heading home snarled traffic. Pedestrians, some clutching children, ran or walked briskly along the streets, hurried on by the distant sounds of gunfire. "They are going to start again," complained a grocer as he pulled down the steel shutters in front of his store. "This was coming for some time...
...soon as fighting broke out in the streets of West Beirut, the Lebanese government ordered the army to shoot on sight. Steel shutters rang down on storefronts. Pedestrians scattered. Car horns blared incessantly. We were interviewing a former government minister when the fighting broke out, and emerged from his office to find shots ringing out amid the cafés and boutiques of Hamra Street, one of West Beirut's busiest thoroughfares. We stopped briefly to buy provisions, then hurried to our apartment building. Not a minute too soon. The half a dozen men of the Lebanese Army contingent...
...afternoon on Tuesday the fighting had subsided, and on Wednesday morning we drove across town. A carpet hung limply from a gaping hole in a highrise. The thick steel cable of an elevator shaft dangled crazily out of a police station. No armed men were in evidence, sandbagged army checkpoints had been abandoned, and traffic flowed freely for the first time in weeks. But clearly the conflict was far from over. Militiamen had thrown up barricades around the district of Maasra, while fighting still raged along the green line that separates Christian East Beirut from the predominantly Muslim western half...
...Changes, Steel...