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...confidence of the Persian Gulf countries." But training of troops in the use of a wide assortment of weapons, from rifles to antiaircraft guns, as well as in small-unit tactics and advanced infantry training maneuvers is a new undertaking for Vinnell. To assemble the necessary expertise, a brisk company recruitment effort is under way among combat-skilled former soldiers. The veterans who will make up the training staff will enjoy, besides their regular military pensions, salaries ranging from $1,500 to $1,800 per month for an 18-month period, with a $2,400 bonus if they serve...
...Margaret Thatcher revive Britain 's Conservative Party? Her cure is a brisk dose of Tory principles, laid on smartly with a no-nonsense schoolmistress 's rod. A sampling of the leader's views...
...because he wanted to please his mother, who apparently was about to die, Mishima married. It must have been a complicated alliance; yet, strangely, it seems to have been a happy one. In some ways the most attractive character in Nathan's book is Mishima's bright, brisk widow, the mother of his two children...
...more extravagant admirers, who tend to be women, consider Erica Jong a female Roth, Vonnegut and Mailer combined. Her first novel, Fear of Flying, had a brisk hardback sale after it was published late in 1973 and since its appearance in paperback last November, a rapid rise to No. 1 on the bestseller charts. At Houston's Rice University it is used in an English course and at Radcliffe, the Atlanta Y.W.C.A. Women's Center and elsewhere as the subject of discussion in consciousness-raising groups. It is also discussed in therapy, since psychiatrists and psychologists have found...
...jamming switchboards of precious-metals dealers and brokerages offering the metal. But actual sales were slow. During the first two days of trading, not a single sale was made in any of European-American Bank's 104 branches in the New York City area. Trading was brisk on half a dozen U.S. commodity exchanges, where gold-futures contracts were being traded along with futures for frozen pork bellies, hogs, cattle and eggs. In the first half-hour of frenzied trading at Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, dealers bought and sold no fewer than 452 contracts for future delivery...