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...should equip the future student's room with the capability to carry voice and video signals--from the highest tech room to the average dorm room--five years down the road," said Hall, citing cable as a means, to transmit audio, visual, textual and computer data information...
...annoyed at the moment: election-year politics has made the U.S. a maddeningly unreliable friend. The Administration has promised to sell Jordan 1,613 Stinger hand-held antiaircraft missiles and 315 missile launchers for $133 million. In addition, the White House has asked Congress to provide $220 million to equip Jordan with a mobile strike force whose 8,000 troops would be available for putting down trouble in the Persian Gulf states or providing swift defense should the Iran-Iraq war suddenly spill out of the gulf...
...been derisively calling Gemayel "the mayor of Beirut" because of his shrunken domain began referring to him still more sarcastically as "the shah of Baabda." To defend even the areas he still holds, the Christian President has left only about half the army that the U.S. helped train and equip. The melting away of the Fourth Brigade removed 2,000 of the 22,000 to 25,000 combat troops supposedly answering Gemayel's orders at the beginning of February. An additional 10,000 Muslim soldiers are staying in their barracks and refusing to fight their coreligionists...
...Grenada 18 months ago by the Cubans, after electric power had been cut and roadblocks installed to conceal the unloading. Also on display were twelve ZU-23 antiaircraft guns, 291 submachine guns, 6,330 rifles and 5.6 million rounds of ammunition. The Pentagon termed the arms cache sufficient to equip two Cuban battalions (about 500 men each) for up to 45 days of combat...
There was nothing inevitable about Dorothy Stratten's nightmare. The culprit in her case was not an evil system, but rather a society which fails to equip its young women with the facts and self-assertiveness necessary for them to make sensible decisions in a world that is free, but also harsh, hazardous, and confusing. Had Stratten recognized herself from the start as an individual with rights--despite her sex-kitten looks--she would have viewed herself as a corporation, instead of as an object of Snider's genuine affection. Indeed, a growing number of models and actresses (such...