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...Second Armored Cavalry Regiment. The Second is at the very forward edge of the U.S. commitment to nato, some 3,800 men assigned to the surveillance of 400 miles of the Iron Curtain. They are screening, among other places, the "Hof Corridor" into upper Bavaria, a less likely battlefield than the north German plain or the Fulda Gap in central Germany but perhaps a tributary invasion route. A feisty Lieut. Colonel from Florence, Ala., Tony Brinkley, 39, thinks the Second could give "the Pact" (the Soviets plus Eastern Europe, as in Warsaw Pact) a lot of trouble. Some...
...These would be capable of reaching all of Eastern Europe and some of western Russia. These weapons were to counterbalance the SS-20s, which the Soviets had begun targeting on Western Europe. Without some such force, there would be a wide gap in the NATO arsenal between "tactical" or battlefield nuclear weapons, and the intercontinental weapons. The NATO TNF will not be ready for deployment until 1983. Meanwhile, the Soviets are steadily deploying the SS-20, and have about 750 warheads-each 15 times or so Hiroshima strength-in place today. In 15 minutes, these weapons could wipe out most...
...coming-of-age literature. As she strings up her fish to dry, O'Callahan's young narrator is still a charming child, playing at a new game. When she learns, with her I, hands smelling of herring, of the death of her brother on a European battlefield. O'Callahan in one exquisitely touching moment transforms the girl into a woman...
Bernard Shaw is one of the few preachers whose sermons wake you up. The stage is his pulpit. It is also his concert hall, ballroom and battlefield...
...reveal qualitative comparisons. For example, the Soviets have nothing to match a brand-new U.S. spy plane, the TR-1, that went into service last week; its cameras from an altitude of some 80,000 feet can draw a picture of enemy movements 200 miles beyond a battlefield. Though the Soviets have more submarines, the U.S. can easily detect where they are?whereas the Soviets, so far as is known, have never tracked even one of the 2,000 voyages that U.S. missile-firing submarines have made, some of them very close to the U.S.S.R.'s shores...