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...room as in the field, noncoms and enlisted soldiers are as devoted to Schwarzkopf as his officers. None seem overly intimidated by his gruffness, his size (6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs.) or even his flare-ups. He is, after all, the Bear, whom some describe as only part grizzly and the rest Teddy. His wife Brenda and their three children know him as a pussycat: an outdoorsman, an amateur magician, a cookie muncher, a fellow who lulls himself to sleep listening to tapes of Pavarotti or the sounds of honking geese and mountain streams. So what if he likes...
...confrontation in Vilnius began to recall events in Hungary in 1956, when the Soviet army moved against a restive population under cover of another Middle East flare-up, the Suez crisis. After a week-long show of force in which armored convoys roamed the city and 1,000 paratroopers secured key buildings, Lithuanians started to form makeshift antitank barricades outside the parliament building...
Perhaps the most insidious consequence of skimping on sleep is the irritability that increasingly pervades society. Weariness corrodes civility and erases humor, traits that ease the myriad daily frustrations, from standing in supermarket lines to refereeing the kids' squabbles. Without sufficient sleep, tempers flare faster and hotter at the slightest offense...
Temper, Temper: Harvard's Ron Mitchell took exception to Krizansky's decision to fling his elbows in the junior Crimson forward's face. Mitchell immediately retaliated with a fist in Krizansky's face, causing tempers on both sides to flare...
Despite the flare-ups in Britain and West Germany, experts believe the threat of homegrown terrorism in Western Europe is receding. In Italy the Red Brigades, once a veritable scourge, have not mounted an attack in more than two years. In France, Action Directe, a far-left extremist movement, appears to have been crushed. Experts warn, however, that a new menace may be looming: the ethnic and religious conflicts springing out of the dissolution of the Soviet empire could give rise to a new strain of the terrorist virus. The Soviets appear to be so worried about that possibility that...