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...down in the late '60s. But the country has never before witnessed the sustained political violence of today. The death toll has recently risen from 300 to 500 a month. As in neighboring El Salvador, much of the killing is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush the small but hard-hitting leftist guerrilla movement. In addition, right-wing paramilitary groups, like the Secret Anti-Communist Army (E.S.A.), appear to do their murderous work with the tacit cooperation of the authorities and are responsible for another large portion of the civilian deaths...
...overriding fact remains: an all-out strategic nuclear exchange would risk life as we know it. In no postwar crisis has a U.S. President come close to using strategic nuclear weapons. There was thus no more urgent task for American defense policy than to increase substantially the capacity for local resistance. But a buildup of conventional forces was decried as dangerous because it would tempt distant adventures, or as too costly...
...their counterparts at CBS and ABC as well. On the day that Small resigned, CBS News President William Leonard, 65, had just finished cleaning out his desk to make way for the newly appointed Van Gordon Sauter, 46. The management shake-ups at both networks were part of an all-out network news ratings war that is changing the style of TV news and filling the screen, say critics, with so much computer-generated imagery that some newscasts now resemble video games...
...would go if it decides to invade. In talks between Israeli military officials and leaders of Lebanon's right-wing Christian Phalange Party, several options have been considered. One is a coordinated pincer movement, with the Israelis moving north into Lebanon while the Christians push southward. Another option is all-out war, which would mean Israeli attacks not only on the forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization but on Syrian bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and along the Golan Heights...
...Nimitz-class nuclear carriers. Asked during his farewell testimony how long one of these $3.6 billion ships would survive during an all-out war, Rickover said "about two days." Many critics argue that building heavy carriers (twelve are now in service) is poor strategy for the 1980s. Forgoing one would reduce 1983 spending by only $74 million, but the savings over six years of scrapping a carrier and its escorting ships would total about $9 billion...