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...other Hal) releases his rage with the complete lack of self-control typical of the society at the Boar. The two worlds, in other words, are peopled with men and women of the same mettle, though any good production of Henry will, as if constructing a strong suit of armor, in joining the various elements hold them in tension...
...terms of military brawn, this year's parade was twice as muscular as the one in 1976, when the Kremlin cut back on the traditional flaunting of military hardware after city officials complained that parading armor tore up the pavement. This time 336 Soviet heavy weapons and mechanized vehicles clattered through Red Square, compared with 151 in 1976. Some of the speeches, too, were steelier. The mighty bash-televised live throughout the Soviet Union-opened with a blunt address by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Standing in subfreezing weather, with his Politburo colleagues, atop Lenin's mausoleum, Ustinov...
...requires a crew of only three; crews of four are required by its predecessor, the 37½-ton T-62, as well as by the tanks of NATO nations, including the 58-ton American M60. Top speed of the T-72 is 43 m.p.h. on level ground. Some Western armor experts fear the T-72 may be able to outperform laser-equipped tanks, such as the British Chieftain, the West German Leopard 2 and the older U.S. M60 A2, now deployed in Western Europe; none of these possess as sophisticated a targeting system as the new Soviet model...
...only one day and failed to report that he legitimately signed out for the day before returning to Cambridge. The Real Paper discounted the Globe report as an easy wedge for the city's big real estate interests to hammer into chinks in the mayor's supposedly shining armor...
Behind them the refugees left scores of deserted villages and towns. There is no sign of the small farmers who used to make a decent living growing tobacco and olives. Now it is an area caught in a strange, static war, with Israeli armor and infantry crossing over to help the Christians fight the Palestinians. No land has been taken by either side. Nor has there been any formal battle, with a winner and a loser...