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...result of this attitude, America's Special Forces are still woefully unprepared for the challenges they could face. Though it is far more likely that the U.S. would use its handful of quick-reaction shock troops rather than any of its 17 active Army divisions or 13 Navy carrier battle groups, special operations still receive less than 1% of the Pentagon's $300 billion budget. Warns Jeffrey Record, a respected expert on military affairs: "I have no doubt that low-intensity conflict is the sort of scenario we'll be fighting in coming decades. What I do doubt is that...
...citizens who still live in Libya despite repeated warnings by Washington to leave. But perhaps the most serious risk was to the Middle East peace process, an ultimate aim of which is a resolution of the Palestinian problem that underlies the current epidemic of terrorism. As the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea left Naples with its support vessels to begin what U.S. officials called "routine operations in the central Mediterranean," the widespread assumption was that the Navy was getting into position in case President Reagan gave the order to strike at Libya...
...spark for the latest skirmish is People Express, the fastest-growing airline in the annals of aviation. People is slashing most of its fares this week by 30% to 60%. Passengers can fly from the carrier's Newark base to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other Florida cities for $69, to Los Angeles and San Francisco for $99, to Minneapolis for $49 and to Greensboro or Raleigh, N.C., for $29. By changing planes in Newark, People Express customers can fly from Chicago to Florida or from Boston to Houston for $99. People's biggest bargain of all is a nonstop flight...
...only the beginning, according to Burr. Says he: "In five years, People Express will be a worldwide transportation company, carrying people and freight, and packaging hotels and rent-a-cars, the works." Some skeptics, though, think that People could instead end up like Laker Airways, the cut-rate transatlantic carrier that expanded too fast and went bankrupt...
Though most of the newcomers have imitated People's low-fare strategy, one fledgling carrier went to the opposite extreme. Regent Air, which currently flies only two planes between Los Angeles and Newark, offers lavish $785 flights that feature caviar, French champagne and on-board hairdressers and stenographers. But Regent has also experienced lavish losses: in its first two years it went $38 million into...