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...rags into gasoline-filled bottles. Finnish partisans ironically named the weapon for the Soviet Foreign Minister and used it with devastating effect against Soviet tanks during the winter war of 1939-40. The Molotov cocktail gained further notoriety a year later, when ill- equipped Soviet troops were forced to deploy the makeshift fire bombs against advancing German armor. After the Nazi invasion began, it was Molotov, not the stunned and demoralized Stalin, who announced the shocking news to his countrymen in a radio broadcast...
...allies, would propose something that would end extended deterrence. Nonetheless, there was useful work done in Iceland. I look on it as an intelligence operation. We come away with a clearer vision of the alternatives. We can either have arms control or we can have a crash program to deploy defense. We can't have both. The President has always said SDI is just a research program, and the Soviets say let's limit it to research. It shouldn't be beyond the ingenuity of man to reach some sort of accommodation between those two positions...
...House measure would give the president 30 days to deploy military equipment and personnel to halt smugglers at the borders and arrest them when in hot pursuit. Within 45 days, the chief executive would be required substantially to halt smuggler boats and planes from crossing U.S. borders...
...zeal to win this confrontation, the House approved a provision requiring the President to deploy, within 30 days after the law takes effect, "armed forces sufficient to halt the unlawful penetration of U.S. borders by aircraft and vessels carrying narcotics." The proposal, yet to be considered by the Senate, allows soldiers to arrest drug smugglers captured in "hot pursuit" and, with blithe unrealism, orders the President to "substantially halt" drug trafficking within 45 days of military deployment...
...would require the President to deploy, within 30 days after passage of the bill, military equipment and personnel to thwart drug trafficking. Although the posse comitatus act of 1878 generally forbids the armed forces from enforcing civil laws, the bill would allow the military to arrest dealers captured in "hot pursuit." Said David Westrake, an official of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Increased military support is welcome and needed." But a variety of civil-liberties advocates immediately demurred, as did the Defense Department. Said Spokesman Robert Sims: "It is a bad precedent to use the Army as a police force." Other...