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...Flash: Crimson Obtains Interview With Bursar...
...maintain a round-the-clock vigil. A red telephone links them directly to the White House; a beige phone can instantly reach any U.S. military commander anywhere in the world. Mounted on one wall are half a dozen computer-fed display screens (each 6 ft. by 8 ft.), which flash the status of U.S. forces. Last week, at the press of a button, the screens gave this picture of some of the U.S. strategic strength on station: 1,054 nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles, most of them sited in concrete-reinforced underground silos scattered across the Great Plains; 21 nuclear-powered...
...smarter" weapons. There's the Shillelagh missile that's fired from a 152-mm. gun and is guided by an infra-red beam. There are a couple of others-a type of Maverick and the Copperhead-that are tracked to their targets by laser beams. Real Flash Gordon stuff! But don't worry about me getting vaporized by a laser or anything like that...
...above the North Atlantic, so lonely half a century ago that Charles Lindbergh said he communed with ghosts and guardian spirits, is dense now with 747s, the flying auditoriums that are just beginning their summer trade. Passengers doze over their drinks, eat flash-frozen steaks, watch movies through a passage as passive as Muzak. The New York-to-Paris odyssey that took Lindbergh 33½ hours would be a 3½-hour streak for the Concorde...
Author Gonzalez-Aller uses flash backs, lyricism, internal monologues and bitter wit to project his vision of cor ruption, revolution and revenge. Lusts, loyalties and betrayals are as entwined as jungle vines. Ideals and dreams are trampled, only to emerge again. History has no beginning, middle and end, only a cycle of birth and death. To Gonzalez-Aller, "Eternity is procreation...