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...crucial Soviet oil refinery, Moscow works out a cold-blooded scheme to prevent the country's economy from collapsing: KGB agents blow up a group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies and shoot-outs...
...radar-evading F-19 Stealth fighter plane, which the Pentagon has refused to admit exists even after one apparently crashed in California last month; descriptions of advances in antisubmarine weapons, among them passive sonars towed by computer-packed surveillance ships; and a stark examination of the critical role that Iceland plays in the naval strategy of the Western alliance...
They came from Ireland and Iceland, Italy and India, Bulgaria and Ghana and Egypt and Brazil. The 350 emissaries represented newspapers and magazines, theaters and festivals, production companies, agencies and television networks. They saw a dozen new or unknown plays in three days in late March, not on Broadway or in London's West End, but in Louisville. Lately, that modest Kentucky city has become a part-time international theater capital, the site of perhaps the most important annual showcase for emerging American playwrights. In the nine years of the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville, many works have...
...bombed out with other allies. William Arkin, a nuclear-policy researcher at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, leaked a Defense Department contingency plan to station nuclear weapons in seven foreign countries and Puerto Rico if a war seemed imminent. The proposed deployment caused a stir in Canada, Iceland and Bermuda, and would violate a U.S. guarantee not to send nuclear weapons to Puerto Rico. It was not clear if the U.S. had notified any of the countries involved...
Reactions to the ruling worldwide varied from dismay to disgust. Said Iceland's former World Chess Federation President Fridrik Olafsson: "Endurance is a factor in all chess matches, and it is absurd to help the champion by giving him a respite." Quipped ex-Champ Spassky: "Campomanes should be called Karpomanes." Meanwhile, Karpov remains champion, and in September the confrontation will begin anew, with no score. In August the chess federation will meet in Graz, Austria, and is expected to go back to the old 24-game rule, ensuring that there will be no repeat of the Moscow marathon...