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...nature of cadet loyalty to their team lies somewhere between the all-out fanaticism of big-time college ball--"We're above that, "says one future officer--and the calculated indifference prevalent at Harvard...
...Administration is also engaged in an all-out effort to increase farm exports. Agriculture Secretary John Block leaves on a sales mission to the Far East early next month and another delegation from his department leaves for Moscow in a week. Already 60% of U.S. wheat and one-third of all farm produce ($45 billion worth) are sold overseas, propping up domestic prices to some extent and thus reducing the need for direct subsidies. The Soviets will require 40 million tons of imported grain this year. After being rebuffed by President Carter's embargo last year, Moscow has been...
...detail to Reagan, arguing that the sale posed a clear "danger" to Israel. "We are not frightened by AWACS," Begin told Reagan, "but we are worried about them." Still, he followed the advice of aides not to raise a public ruckus in the U.S. about the sale, since an all-out fight would look bad if Congress does not act to block the deal...
Such all-out attention is normally reserved for a national crisis. NBC says teen use of drugs and alcohol is just that: by age 17, 70% of all youths have sampled one or both. So the start of the network's season will be an antidrug special, half grim documentary, half musical extravaganza. The show, Get High on Yourself, also centers on the jingle, which is presented five times in pop, rock, acid rock, country and gospel versions. Warbling it among a huge cast will be 55 entertainment and sports celebrities, ranging from tuneful Olivia Newton-John to frog...
...general on the staff of Arbatov's institute, Mikhail Milshtein, rejects the very concepts of a first strike and a limited nuclear war: "It is inconceivable to me that any government would wait to see if the incoming warheads were only aimed at silos or were part of an all-out attack. Our government could never exclude the possibility of launch on warning. Besides, the notion of a surgical strike against land-based missiles is a fantasy. One of the more popular scenarios in the U.S. stipulates that to knock out Minuteman, we would have...