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...Beirut seemed to erupt in gunfire as the first elements of the P.L.O. contingent left the Fakhani district, site of the organization's headquarters, aboard Lebanese army trucks. For nearly three hours, hundreds of Palestinian soldiers throughout the city fired rifles, machine guns, rockets and antiaircraft guns into the air in a grand salute to their departing comrades. Watching the spectacle were 350 French peace-keeping troops who had arrived shortly after dawn that morning to assist in the evacuation...
...across the screen like a laser sword. The flight time the shells is preprogrammed to the millisecond; even reloading is figured in. The computer, executing 2 million programming instructions per second, takes 20 seconds to analyze the effects of a ten-kiloton blast. Towns are reduced to rubble. Forests erupt in flames, represented by flickering red dots. Temperature, humidity and wind speed must be reckoned with; they affect the way fallout will blow and how fast a fireball will spread. "You get a real feeling for the dynamics and time pressures of combat," says Lieut Colonel Crissman...
...grim week, the I.R.A. strikes in cold blood and new scandals erupt...
Yergin, co-author of the 1979 bestseller Energy Future and contributor of two of the twelve essays in this volume, warns that a devastating energy crisis could erupt at any time. He writes: "That, in a nub, is the problem for the United States and the entire industrial world, and is why we have undertaken this study." Yer gin fears that the current small glut in perils supplies will lull industrialized countries into the type of complacency that leads U.S. auto buyers to want to rush back to big cars as soon as gas prices seem to abate...
With the economies of Europe as well as the U.S. already in trouble, a brush-fire trade war is the last thing that any government would like to see erupt. Thus, for weeks, U.S. negotiators had been meeting privately with European Community officials in a search for some sort of agreement that would head off the need for action by the Commerce Department. Washington's preferred solution was a voluntary pledge by the Europeans to limit exports. Since 1978 the Japanese have kept their steel sales in the U.S. to approximately 6 million tons annually. It was hoped that...