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...tagon has established a unique logistics system that will supply Guard units with specialized riot gear not normally issued through regular channels. Protective body armor, bullhorns, search lights and portable tear gas dispensers have been stockpiled at scattered secret depots throughout the nation. Enough radio sets to equip two infantry divisions have been pre-positioned on the East and West coasts to cut down delivery time to the scene of a disturbance; military planning packets (including maps, transportation and troop housing data) are being prepared for cities where rioting may occur...
Fever Swamps. Buckley can be effectively pithy. When the British Labor government decided to equip police with breathometers to check drivers for drunkenness, he commented: "People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government." Or he can set sail on splendid seas of invective. "The Bishop of Woolwich, who is England's Bishop Pike only more so, announced recently from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral that he had recently traveled to America and there found that 'every Christian I met' was opposed...
...instance, perform both as a backup to the nation's regular armed forces and as a kind of superstate police force-when both jobs require sophisticated skills and equipment undreamed of even a decade ago? To equip both Guard and Reserve units for modern battlefield conditions would cost no less than $10 billion. Should Guard units be brought more tightly under federal control, so that officers, who now are often deeply involved in state politics, have to meet uniform standards of competence? So far, Congress has resisted any suggestion that it look into these and other Guard problems...
...reduce X-ray emissions of high voltage tubes to safe levels, manufacturers equip the tubes with metallic shields that absorb most of the radiation. But because of a manufacturing error, the shields inside many of the 24,500-volt G.E. tubes were misaligned. As a result, part of the X rays emitted by the anode could leak through the bottom of the tube. The radiation from the tube, according to the Public Health Service, ranged from ten to 100,000 times more than the rate considered safe...
...hotheads, they reason, are better than one, and together they ride out to gun down a gang of Mexican bank robbers and split the reward. As Van Cleef and Eastwood close in for the kill, bodies begin to pile up like cordwood, and enough lead is exchanged to re-equip the Egyptian army. Long before the end, the violence becomes a bit like a Grand Guignol show-raucous, incessant and absurd...