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...principal reason for this policy has been economy. Today's reservists are a far cry from the fat, lazy weekend warriors of legend. They pass the same physical tests as regulars, get the same sort of training, and drill with the same advanced equipment. Nonetheless, it costs only a third to half as much to pay, train and equip a reservist as it does a full-time soldier...
...ground-attack fighters and A-10 antitank planes. Marine units are being flown to the Persian Gulf from the U.S. There they will meet two prepositioned supply ships already under way from Guam and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. These ships contain everything necessary to fully equip a Marine brigade of 17,000 men. This includes 45 tanks, heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers and food, water and fuel for 30 days...
...M.P.A.A. signed a truce with Go-Video in 1988 after the company agreed to equip its VCRs with an electronic device that can detect a special signal on a movie tape and prevent the consumer from making a copy. Last year Go- Video settled with 21 other defendants in the suit, accepting $2 million. One of the companies, Samsung, agreed to manufacture the VCR-2 at its factory in South Korea. In exchange, Samsung will license Go-Video's technology to sell dual-deck VCRs under its own label around the world. Building on its earlier case, Go-Video filed...
...Europe and Japan for more than two years, the U.S. debut has been delayed by controversy. Reason: the recorders can produce flawless copies of CDs, which has raised fears in the music industry of a surge in illegal "pirate" tapes. Sony and other electronics manufacturers have agreed to equip their DAT recorders with special circuitry to prevent the machines from making multiple copies of the same tape, but many record companies and artists want Congress to write this agreement into...
...incentive to help: some $600 million to $1.2 billion in coca leaves are exported from Peru each year, feeding the world's cocaine cartels. Fujimori cannot hope to combat the drug problem if Peru sinks into political and economic chaos. The U.S. Congress has approved $35.9 million to equip Peruvian soldiers to fight guerrillas and cocaine merchants. But Fujimori wants to renegotiate, saying that the U.S. should pay to build roads and provide assistance for alternate crops...