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...Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and the last is Brigadier General Lewis Armistead. They don't embrace all the contortions imposed on the human spirit by the military necessity, but they'll do for a potent, dramatic start. And their existence as well-drawn figures amid the hubbub of a four-hour epic speaks well for writer-director Ronald Maxwell's sober intentions and very creditable achievements in this film. Of the three, Martin Sheen's Lee is the most startling. In our folklore (and in the hearts of his troops) the Confederate leader has been granted near saintly status. Sheen gives...
...defenses? Says former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger: ''By asking the Soviets to reduce offense while we pose to them the possibility of greatly increased American defense, the Administration has created a situation in which the Soviets cannot accommodate the U.S. even if they wanted to.'' The question of the hour--and of the coming months--is to what extent the Soviets might be willing to accommodate the U.S. in order to head off SDI. This possibility is sometimes called the ''grand compromise.'' Such a deal could accomplish what Reagan proclaimed as his goal when he sought to replace SALT with...
...Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. could entail an intercontinental blitzkrieg: thousands of missiles launched from enemy territory, letting loose tens of thousands of deadly warheads surrounded by a nebula of hurtling decoys and debris. In half an hour, this lethal ''threat cloud'' would be over the U.S., raining destruction on cities and military targets alike. Trying to stop this deluge would require enormous technological breakthroughs in at least four areas: sensors, lasers, particle beams and computer programming. Should such advances occur, SDI proponents argue, a reasonably effective Star Wars defense would reduce to virtually zero the number of Soviet...
...information to magnetic tape. The electronic data are then beamed by satellite to American's central computer in Tulsa. Despite extra expenses like the cost of transmitting the data by satellite, the overseas operation saves money for the airline. The main reason: Barbados data processors are paid $2.20 an hour, much less than the $9 that American used to pay its U.S. keypunch operators to do the same work. American Airlines is one of a growing number of U.S. firms that are transferring white-collar work to Barbados, Jamaica and other locales abroad. Statistics on the trend are hard...
...them will be in services, even though in that sector there are growing signs of new overseas competition (see box). Those American blue-collar workers who hold on to their jobs, however, will continue to be among the world's wealthiest, with average manufacturing compensation of $12.97 an hour, vs. $1.45 in Taiwan and $1.28 in Brazil. To many labor leaders, industrial scholars and worried politicians, the blue-collar decline is part of a dangerous challenge to U.S. welfare and security. They call the process deindustrialization, and argue that while the U.S. devours huge amounts of foreign industrial goods...