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...Berets: one of several elite battalions about 600 strong trained in antiguerrilla warfare by North Korean and Vietnamese military advisers in 1983. The Sandinistas have a big edge in modern equipment, like Soviet AK-47 rifles and T-55 tanks. The rebels are nervously waiting for the Sandinistas to deploy their new Hind-D helicopters, which can fly 200 m.p.h. and carry air-to-surface missiles...
...just set off a new and dangerous round in the arms race as each side looked for ways to overwhelm the other's defenses. "If the new technologies cannot meet these standards," said Nitze in a speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, "we are not about to deploy them...
...Testing of weapons has continued. Our effort is essential right now, because if you can't test, you can't produce and you can't deploy," said Grodzins, who represented Massachusetts' seventh Congressional district at a national freeze convention in St. Louis last year...
...have a better assessment of our response capabilities where the Soviets are concerned, whether it is One-fifth of the next 70 shuttle flights are scheduled as military missions, and future payloads may include controversial Star Wars technology. In the meantime, the U.S. is moving swiftly to assign and deploy even more advanced space surveillance systems, including "low- look" satellites that can take pictures of the numbers on a car's license plate from 80 miles above the earth...
...movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...