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...battlefield. For one thing, NATO would be on the defensive, thus requiring significantly fewer troops than an attacker. NATO also benefits from advanced technology. Comparison of NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks serves as a good example of NATO'S superior equipment: although the mammoth Soviet T-62 is heavier than its Western rivals-the U.S.'s M60, Britain's Chieftain and West Germany's Leopard-it is less accurate, slower, and sports a vulnerably exposed rear fuel tank. The West also leads in developing precision-guided munitions (the so-called smart weapons) like the infantry...
Harvard's Sal D'agostino (177 lbs.), Second Team All-Ivy last year at a heavier weight, turned his foe over at the edge of the mat and forced the advantage home for the pin. The Crimson had its last lead of the match...
...first round of two respected polls in crucial states also favored Carter. The New York Daily News gave the Democrat 53% to Ford's 44%-but Ford's strength is in the suburbs and upstate, where voter turnout is generally heavier than in New York City, where Carter is far ahead. The Chicago Sun-Times shows Carter ahead 51.1% to 47.5% in Illinois, but Ford appears to be gaining. Since the prize is still anybody's, neither candidate seems willing to try for a haymaker that could miss-and leave his own jaw fully exposed...
...There isn't a thing in that building that Cy Harris didn't kick at least once," says Johnson. "If he wanted it heavier, he got it. He was the boss, and my approach from the start was that if anyone was going to be exiled to Argentina in the morning, it was going to be him, not me." Harris is not going anyplace, except in triumph to Salt Lake City and Bombay to work on new concert halls...
...years ago, students were content to lock their bikes with the not-very-reliable combination of chain and padlock. But thefts mushroomed along with the ten-speed bicycle craze, and students began removing their front wheel when they parked, buying heavier and heavier chains, and eventually looking for totally new kinds of locks...