Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FAMILY ARSENAL by Paul Theroux. Shades of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene hover about this tale of inept terrorists trying to play house in London...
...armed forces that began ten years ago and has yet to slacken (TIME, March 8). A top NATO official points out that the U.S.S.R. now turns out a new submarine every five weeks and 800 warplanes a year. This year alone, it added 2,000 new tanks to its arsenal, while America's tank force grew at only about one-fifth that figure. This arms imbalance is especially dangerous in NATO's north-central region, stretching from the Baltic to the Alps, where numerous areas of excellent tank terrain offer an inviting route of march from the Elbe...
...Soviets are opting for at least a temporary chill on relations with the U.S., they do so with more military muscle than ever before. Moscow has not only been rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, it has also increased its conventional forces so that it is today questionable whether NATO troops would be able to thwart a Russian thrust into Central Europe...
...gearing their style of play around a cohesive offense featuring a savvy, ball-control backcourt of captain Jeff Hill, senior Dave Rogers, and swingman Jonas Honick, 6-ft, 8-in, center Steve Irion and last year's leading freshman scorer Bob Hooft round out the well-balenced offensive arsenal...
...THERE IS A FLAW in The Family Arsenal, it is that Theroux's map of London is too well marked. As in theater, nothing is what it appears to be. The apparent innocence of children becomes cruelty. Men are unmasked as women and women, men. Because Theroux insists on our acceptance of his nightmarish conventions from the beginning, nothing come as a real surprise. The connections, like the streets of the city, lead from one to the next...