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...chain of fortifications that stretched 200 miles along the frontier from Switzerland north as far as Luxembourg. Built at a cost of $200 million (a substantial sum at a time when a workman earned about $3 a day), the Maginot Line was considered invulnerable; its strongest outposts bristled with antitank guns, machine guns and barbed wire, and boasted concrete walls 10 ft. thick as well as supply depots 100 ft. underground. To the north of the Ardennes Forest, which was only lightly fortified because the French considered it "impenetrable," a "Little Maginot Line" guarded the Franco-Belgian border...
Seoul is, of course, a city perpetually on alert, many of whose citizens believe themselves at war. Antitank walls line the highway leading out of town to the DMZ, just 35 miles away, and air-raid drills bring the city to a halt on the 15th of each month. Soldiers are everywhere (museums even offer specially priced "soldier" tickets). Yet for all that, the city is much calmer than the choreographed, telegenic demonstrations suggest. For most of the area's residents, the convulsions of the "demo-crazy" students are as remote as South Bronx gangland warfare to a businessman...
...information provided by Conrad probably included details on NATO troop mobilization and the location of barbed wire and antitank traps as well as the positioning of nuclear-capable artillery. Says former Army Chief of Staff General Edward C. Meyer: "With that sort of information on the Soviets, I could blow away a whole Soviet corps in wartime...
...American M1 Abrams tanks maneuver through war games on the West German plain, NATO strategists worry about how to protect them from increasingly powerful Soviet antitank missiles. Last week the Army announced the development of an armor that will give the Abrams far better combat survivability. "This isn't a 10% upgrade in protection, this is a 100% upgrade," said Phillip Karber, a vice president of the weapons-testing BDM Corp. and an expert on tanks. The new armor, containing depleted uranium encased in steel, will not reduce the tank's top speed of 42 m.p.h. The Pentagon says that...
...three clients of his "communications" firm. They were: New York City's scandal-plagued Wedtech Corp., which paid Nofziger's agency $1 million to help secure an Army small- engine contract; Fairchild Republic Co., which paid his firm $25,000 to promote continued federal funding of A-10 antitank aircraft; and the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, a maritime union that retained him ! at $90,000 a year to advocate the use of more civilian seamen on U.S. fleet support ships...