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...danger for wider conflict lies in the tragic reality that Lebanon-in the best of times an uneasy pastiche of disparate religious and political groups-is a cockpit of regional, not just local, antagonisms. The key rival forces...
...have a regular plane with a pregnant stewardess--no fancy water dives, Concordes or singing nuns for Arthur Hailey). She was the one who divided her time between stealing the little liquor bottles and getting it on with unhappily married pilot Dean Martin when the co-pilot left the cockpit. And then there was Earthquake, that child of the San Andreas fault, which co-starred Charlton Heston, a house that chased after its inhabitants and the marvels of Sensurround. And what about Hurricane, Avalanche, The Black Hole or even Tidal Wave, the low-budget Japanese thriller that brought Lorne Greene...
...something more than a pastiche of romance movie clichés-offering, incidentally, targets ranging from Saturday Night Fever to From Here to Eternity-it is hard to imagine anyone paying him much attention. There is so much more unplanned in-flight entertainment going on elsewhere. Up in the cockpit, a child is criticizing Jabbar for not hustling on defense. The boy himself is being slyly propositioned by marvelously straight-faced Pilot Graves. "Have you ever seen a grownup man naked?" he inquires in the same tone he might use to describe the flight plan. Eliciting no response, he tries...
Vance predicted that "the cockpit of crises" in the coming decade would be the Third World. He recommended certain specific steps-recognition of the leftist regime in Angola and improved relations with Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But throughout the underdeveloped lands of Africa and Asia, he said, people "do not want the rhetoric of American leadership: they want its substance." U.S. foreign aid has declined 25% in the past 25 years, and the U.S. now ranks 13th among the top 17 industrial nations in the percentage of gross national product devoted to foreign aid. Vance's judgment on that: "Disgraceful...
Experienced officers and NCOS are quitting for a number of reasons. Reports TIME Pentagon Correspondent Don Sider: "Many are dissatisfied with the quality of the troops they are getting and of the training they are able to give. They feel they spend too few hours in the cockpit or fire too few artillery practice rounds or take their recruits too few miles on marches. In addition, the professional military man's morale has suffered because of prolonged separations from family. The 144-day Indian Ocean patrol by the Nimitz is but an extreme example of what is happening more...