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...Ocean. U.S. officials had been pressing the Europeans on this for several months, and last week the allies agreed on a two-stage program to accelerate NATO's already ambitious two-year-old Long Term Defense Program. As a first stage, the alliance plans to acquire more conventional battlefield weapons within the next year, increase ammunition stockpiles and improve defenses against Soviet chemical warfare. Then by the mid-1980s, the allies intend to complete the program's second stage: expand reserve forces, help the U.S. build up stocks of munitions for U.S. units to be dispatched to Europe...
...group, by the efforts of police, were the anti-Khomeini Iranians and the fed-up Londoners, who shouted, "Go home, go home!" A lively group beating drums danced for peace, and a group of Britons sang Rule Britannia. Lamenting the fact that the city was being turned into a "battlefield for other people's quarrels," the London Evening News asked, "So what are these guerrillas doing here anyway?" The Daily Mail wondered why it is that "three-fifths of the world is covered with water and the rest by Iranian students...
Returning to the battlefield for the fourth time in 36 hours, the laxwomen prepared to meet the onslaught of a strong and speedy Princeton squad. Having destroyed the Tigers, 11-3, earlier in the season, the weary Crimson squad was prepared to notch another victory and move on to the final round Sunday...
Though the two chairmen disagreed on energy policy, both agreed that no new committee should take command of their battlefield. Udall was afraid the new committee would gain control of nuclear safety standards, a responsibility of his subcommittee. Dingell had more reason to worry: his subcommittee was going to be incorporated whole into the new body...
...Chad, the scene was all too familiar. Cannon and machine-gun fire echoed through the streets of N'Djamena, the dusty riverside capital of the north-central African nation. Days of violent combat turned the city, which once had a population of 193,000, into a smoke-shrouded battlefield. By week's end, in spite of two abortive ceasefires, hundreds were dead, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Some 600 foreigners, including U.S. Ambassador Donald Norland, and up to 30,000 of Chad's 4.5 million people had fled the war-torn country...