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...combat, but it is awesomely equipped. In the past two decades, Iran has bought $36 billion in weaponry, most of it from Britain and the U.S. The total includes 2,200 tanks, 400 jet fighters, nearly 30 naval vessels, as well as air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles. Iran, moreover, is one of the few nations in the world to have fleet of military hover craft. Although the latest crisis forced the Shah to delay or cancel $7 billion in current purchases, about $12 billion worth of equipment is in the delivery pipeline, including 160 advanced...
...Soviet thrust is questionable. Indeed, if China buys modern weapons from Europe, or possibly the U.S., the 190 divisions of the People's Liberation Army may have to wait a long time to be outfitted. Says Georgetown University Military Analyst Edward N. Luttwak: "The total inventory of American ground weapons of the Army and Marines, of the active forces and reserves, would not be enough to equip the Chinese army with modern weapons...
...kaffiyehs? Mexico became a net exporter of petroleum in 1975 as a result of discoveries of big deposits in the southern regions east of Veracruz, and since then, one leading U.S. energy analyst says enviously, "the Mexicans have been finding oil as fast as they put holes in the ground." Last week Jorge Diaz Serrano, head of Pemex, the government oil monopoly, announced the discovery of a new field that he says may contain up to 100 billion bbl.; that would be more than half as much as Saudi Arabia's proven reserves, as well as the biggest single...
...fact, the impression I left with was that the proposal for creating an environment in which teaching skills might receive unwonted (and, yes, in some quarters, unwanted) recognition at this University had actually gotten off the ground. Student interest and pressure can help keep it in flight, and may, indeed, be essential to keeping it in flight. But partial and, I'm afraid, somewhat automatic newspaper responses to what's being done to nurture this (for contemporary Harvard) rara avis, are not too helpful. Peter Dale Allston Burr Senior Tutor
...split in the anarchist movement has left little common ground where anarcho-capitalists, who are very concerned with establishing a free market system, and Anarcho-socialists, who are more intent on abolishing all forms of hierarchy and domination, can meet. But all the anarchist groups share a belief in the sovereignty and dignity of the individual, and this belief is the source of their hope...