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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a very real and growing threat. It is not scare talk or any kind of propaganda." With that dire warning, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger last week released a glossy, 99-page report titled Soviet Military Power. The study, illustrated with maps and photographs, describes in impressive detail the Soviet military machine and its ever growing arsenal of new weapons systems, tanks, missiles, ships, artillery and aircraft. Put together by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the report is the largest and most comprehensive release of declassified intelligence data in the Pentagon's history. Its purpose: to send...
Although the report contains no startling disclosures, in its breadth of detail it is convincing-and even frightening. There are illustrations-drawn in rather crude Flash Gordon style from satellite photos-of the new 25,000-ton Typhoon missile submarine, an SS-20 launch site, the experimental T-80 tank and surface-to-air laser weapons. Maps target where Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles and intermediate-range SS-20s have been placed, chart the location of Soviet divisions, and illustrate the sweep of Soviet adventurism around the globe, complete with lists of technicians and advisers stationed abroad. To bolster its point...
...arsenal to match the U.S. fleet of 13 aircraft carriers. While NATO is outflanked by Soviet tanks, the allies have beefed up their defenses with thousands of antitank missiles. Nevertheless, Gregory Treverton, assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, complimented the report for its exhaustive detail and declared that it "does not overemphasize Soviet power." The Government Printing Office has already run off 36,000 booklets (at a cost of $40,000, with copies available to the public at $6.50 each), and there are plans to translate the booklet into five languages (German, French, Japanese, Italian...
...Paris-Paris," which fills a floor of the Pompidou Center in Paris until Nov. 2, is-so to speak-the fourth panel of a triptych. When "le Pompidoglio" opened in 1977, it started a series of exhibitions meant to show, in detail, how the capital cities of modernism had reacted to one another in our century. These were "Paris-New York" (1977), "Paris-Berlin" (1978) and "Paris-Moscow" (1979). The emphasis would be on painting and sculpture, but other wells of memory were also tapped-period rooms, reconstructions, photos, slide displays and documents. In the archaeology of the recently vanished...
Baranczak--a Polish scholar and dissident who has written three works of literary criticism--said his colleague seeks clarity in language and authenticity of detail...