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When producers of CBS's hit drama CSI: Miami considered??locales for the first episode of the new season, Rio de Janeiro was a natural. The Brazilian megalopolis--a city associated with drugs and danger--was a place where Lieutenant Horatio Caine (David Caruso) could plausibly go to solve his wife's murder, the crime that concluded last season. But it was also a good business move to film the opener in South America, where millions of loyal viewers watch each week. "We have a responsibility to embrace these markets where we get so much support," says Caruso, who spent...
...Napoleon considered??China "A sleeping giant" but warned that "when she awakes, the world will tremble...
...cliff when Jimmy Carter became President. Looking back over the past 3½ years, Soviets launch into a long, angry, but obviously one-sided litany of grievances: the President's letter to dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov barely three weeks into Carter's presidency; Carter's ill-fated ?and ill-considered???opening move in SALT, which would have required drastic reductions in the Soviet arsenal; his unseemly rush to normalize diplomatic relations with Peking, grant China most-favored-nation status and sell it military equipment; his saber rattling over the belated discovery last August of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
Actually, the possibility of a U.S. invasion never became really imminent. It was considered???and promptly rejected in any situation short of unspecified "dire circumstances" or as a "last resort." One reason was that the Joint Chiefs of Staff adamantly opposed such a move. Their opposition was so emphatic that they even offered political objections. If ordered to execute such an operation they would, of course, have done so, but most reluctantly...
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