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...less than two-thirds complete. When it is finished, the single-track railway will cover 542 miles and form a giant Y across Gabon. "The main problem is that it is so big, so enormous," says Robert Clark, a Californian from a firm of consulting engineers overseeing the task. "It is an earthmoving job on a gigantic scale...
...France, he joined the French Communist Party, where he learned basic Marxist theory as well as the Internationale. (The Chinese Communist Party was not founded until 1921.) Later, as a member of the Chinese Socialist Youth League in France, Deng was assigned to mimeograph its journal, Red Light, a task he performed with such zeal that his fellow activists nicknamed him "Doctor of Mimeography...
...become inextricably tangled in the rising partisan rhetoric of a midterm election year. Much as Reagan wants the Republicans to retain control of the Senate, where they hold a 53-47 majority, as a counterweight to the Democrat-run House, he knows that doing so will be no easy task. Two-thirds of the 34 Senate seats at stake in 1986 are held by Republicans. In the House, the Democrats are expected to retain, and perhaps strengthen, their 253-182 advantage...
...deploying such Special Forces has provoked a fierce debate in the corridors of the Pentagon and in secret congressional hearings over the past few months. When he went West for New Year's, President Reagan took with him a secret report from the Holloway Commission, a White House task force set up six months ago to explore new ways of fighting terrorism. Next week the debate will spill into the open, as Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger join more than 100 experts to discuss the future of low-intensity conflict at a symposium at Fort...
...major problem is that instead of fusing into a cohesive elite force, this hodgepodge of different units has increased interservice rivalries, in part because of such rapid growth in recent years. The Air Force's 1st SOW is equipped to transport Special Forces; so is the Army's Task Force 160 of the 101st Air Assault Division. The Rangers, 1,800 strong, see themselves as the elite light-infantry unit; so does the entire 198,000-member Marine Corps. The Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Agency, established in 1984 to advise on policy, is run by Marine Major General Wesley...