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...pressed businessman, the lure can become irresistible. "If you want to become a millionaire in a short period of time," says Robert Brosio, an assistant U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, "in the drug business you can work your way up very fast." Fear of getting caught does not substantially deter risk taking. In Southern California, as elsewhere, those who use cocaine tend to be people of substance and reputation. "You're not dealing with dirt bags on the street," says Donald Bays, analytical...
...gulf states know that only the U.S. has the power to deter major acts of aggression. But the U.S. is also the chief backer of Israel, and as such, it is the object of as much resentment as reliance. The gulf rulers are afraid that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's determination to annex the West Bank is at least as likely to plunge the region into chaos as are the combined threats of Arab radicalism, Islamic fundamentalism and Soviet adventurism. In that respect, they see the U.S. as part of their problem rather than part of the solution...
...organized the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (R.D.F.). Established in 1980 after the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the R.D.F. draws on units from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. Its mandate is "to ensure the unimpeded flow of oil" and "to deter aggression from outside [Southwest Asia and the gulf] and to assist nations in the region in resisting aggression." The R.D.F. has headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and until now has inhabited a kind of bureaucratic limbo, falling between the European and Pacific commands of the U.S. military...
...launch a tank attack against the principal Omani airbase at Thamarit in the desert plain north of Salalah, the capital of the Dhofar. An armored column would need only five hours to reach Thamarit. That threat is one of the many contingencies that the U.S. R.D.F. is meant to deter and to thwart if it ever arises. Therefore the Jade Tiger maneuvers will probably have the U.S. Air Force landing large transports at Thamarit, which has one of the longest runways in the world, and U.S. Navy fighters from aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean may practice missions in support...
...article that appeared prior to the Dartmouth vandalism in The Dartmouth Review, a conservative campus weekly newspaper, compared the sukkah to west hank settlements. The newspaper also ran a picture of the sukkah with the caption "Grin and Beirut," but Paley said no link could he deter mined unless the vandals were caught...