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...five years ago, when the U.S. depended on the Shah to protect its interests." To carry out the new policy, the Joint Chiefs produced a new command: the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDF). It consists of 250 officers and senior NCOS at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., and 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who would come under their command in case of an emergency...
...sake, living rooms traditionally are cut off from other rooms in a house by a hallway, staircase or dining room. The great room, however, opens directly onto every other room in the house. This saves the construction cost of building a hallway. Says Daniel W. Miller, an Orlando, Fla., real estate consultant: "Hallways are the result of lazy architects, and the days of the formal living room and dining room are numbered, except for the very affluent...
Carter's difficulty in restraining himself was evident on Friday, when a local television interviewer in St. Petersburg, Fla., asked about Reagan's charges that the President was considering taxing Social Security benefits and tapping private pension funds to help revitalize ailing industries. Snapped Carter: "Completely false . . . It's difficult to respond to ridiculous things like this." He vented his frustration by attacking Reagan: "A lot of his advisers are afraid of what he would say in a free and open exchange of ideas . . . [his calls] for injecting American military forces into place after place around...
...Unforgivable," was Reagan's quick reply to Carter's attack. He told a rally in Pensacola, Fla.: "I think that to accuse anyone of deliberately wanting war is beneath decency. I have two sons. I have a grandson. I have known four wars in my lifetime and I think, like all of you, that world peace has got to be the principal theme of the nation...
...city of St. Petersburg, Fla., was named by Businessman and Railroad Builder Peter Demyanoff-Demens, who came from St. Petersburg, Russia...