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Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...tools of technology are brought into the effort to see around the distant bend in the river. Thus planning has grown into a full-fledged industry in the 20th century. The trend is striking, but even more impressive is how little mankind has progressed LA its efforts to plumb the future since those days of prophetic dreams...
...early-February ward caucuses. Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III finished a distant third to Gov. Edward J. King and former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in the non-binding contest for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In a survey released last week of registered voters likely to participate in the Democratic primary. O'Neill also finished third, more than 30 percentage points behind front-runner Dukakis...
There are even 1,800 people, who shear the sheep, shoot the geese and occasionally eat penguin eggs. Almost all of the residents are of Scottish, Irish or Welsh descent and passionately claim allegiance to the distant monarchy that many of them have never seen (one of the three secular holidays celebrated every year is April 21, Her Majesty's birthday). And now there are about 5,000 Argentine troops who declare that the place is theirs...
...wars of the future: the war will fall out of the sky one afternoon and land on J.C. Penney's. But in the Falklands, we have a war-if it came to that-that would presumably be conducted in what used to be the great colonial Elsewhere, the distant and exotic battlefield that soldiers sail away to. It would be a regressive war fought for the most part with means that seem almost primitive-ships at sea, for example, and marines...