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...Army forces in Europe, General Frederick J. Kroesen, 58, knew he had become a prime target in the anti-American campaign waged by West German terrorists. Barely a month ago, the mild-mannered general finally heeded pleas by West German police to exchange his American limousine for an armor-plated Mercedes...
...sound tracks and martial anthologies. The Raleigh house is compact, and hugged by camellia bushes and Chinese holly. In the vestibule hangs a Helms coat of arms with a Latin motto, Cassis tutissima virtus, that Jesse and Dot have never bothered to translate. (It means "Virtue is the safest armor" and contains a Latin pun: cassis also means "helm.") There are not many books. Helms wants to take up reading mysteries?Dot tells him that intellectuals peruse them to relax ?but for now a Churchill biography lies on a coffee table. There are autographed portraits: President Reagan, Spiro Agnew...
...billion to his budget so the Army could buy 1,289 over the next two years. (Estimated cost of the best Soviet tanks, the T-64 and T72: $700,000 each.) The M1's advanced turbine engine gulps fuel at the staggering rate of 3 gal. per mile. Its armor (60.3 tons) makes it so bulky that it cannot be carried aboard any cargo plane except the Galaxy, the biggest thing on wings. Even a Galaxy can haul only one Abrams. Result: the M-l can be used only in areas to which it can be sent leisurely by ship...
...lessen King Henry's achievements. Edward Atienza would do well to rid his King Charles of lapses into the Maurice Evans tremolo; but it is effective, when he calls the roll of French nobles from the gallery, to have them line up in the shadows below clad in full armor and helmet, with their backs to the audience...
...Fallows, is the force that must use them. He repeats many of the common arguments about the volunteer army as employer of last resort. For example, this astounding statistic--in 1980, of the 100,860 men who were serving their first term as enlisted men in the infantry or armor artillery, exactly 25 (men, not per cent) had college degrees. But he adds new dimensions to the usual discussion of social inequality by stressing he military effects of an all-poor army. "I think the mixture of middle-class men had a real modulating effect," he quotes one expert...