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...announced troop deployment, coming in the wake of a Central Committee threat to declare martial law, had ominous implications. So did the crescendo of official warnings against carrying out the planned national strike. Early in the week, authorities declared that Solidarity's walkout "would be met with actions commensurate with the threat." A group of party hard-liners raised the chilling possibility of "shedding fraternal blood." Moreover, the Soviet news agency TASS reported that "counterrevolutionary" forces were using the strike to "blackmail" the Warsaw regime...
there are 200-ft.-long "fast patrol boats," destroyers, fiber-glass-and-plastic-hulled minesweepers, troop-carrying Hovercraft and even a 670-ft., 14,000-ton Vickers aircraft carrier. Nor is the infantry slighted: there are mortars (51 mm or 81 mm), silencer-equipped submachine guns, four-round sniper rifles (99% accuracy at 400 meters) and a battery-powered grenade launcher. Missiles? Try an air-to-air Sky Flash or a ship-to-air Seawolf, a Rapier ("low cost" and "low weight") or a Swingfire ("long-range" and "antitank"). Once the weapons are ordered, there are British firms that will...
Guided by his parents and his own instincts, a boy becomes a Scout because he senses that it will help him to grow up. He does not beat his chest with pride. But he cheers loudly whenever his troop or his home state is mentioned over the p.a. system. He is glad to belong to something outside his family, and his family is glad too, spending about $485 to send him here...
...cost overruns and the debatable forecasting record of economists. The ballooning has already begun. The anticipated cost of a new infantry fighting vehicle for the Army has doubled from $900,000 to $1.8 million each; the expected price of SOTAS, a helicopter-borne radar system designed to spy out troop movements far behind enemy lines, more than tripled from $8.7 million to $28 million per unit. Many Congressmen fear that unless military outlays are controlled by some strictly enforced set of priorities, they will soar far beyond the projected $1.5 trillion. What if the defense bills fall...
...know that the Irish had their civil rights movement? People like Bernadette Devlin protested--peacefully--the political, social and especially economic discrimination they were subject to in the six northernmost counties of Ireland. And it didn't do a thing, except that the Protestants, and pretty soon the British troops, began to shoot at them. Don't you know that unemployment is higher, that wages are lower, that life is mean, for the Irish who live in Northern Ireland? Can't you imagine what it would feel like to wake up in the morning and see armored troop carriers, with...