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...current military strength of the Khmer Rouge, largest of the three guerrilla groups (the others are Sihanouk's Nationalist Army and former Premier Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front), is in dispute. Soviet and Vietnamese military advisers insist that the Kampuchean armed forces can contain the threat, but Western analysts have their doubts. Kampuchea's 30,000-man regular army and the 100,000 irregulars assigned to defend their country are largely untested. Many Kampucheans fear that once the Vietnamese draw down their forces, the Khmer Rouge may succeed in grabbing power once more...
State Department officials insist that the situation is only temporary and that much of the problem could be resolved if the Soviets would extend the exit visas. Still, the red-tape tangle was more than a little ironic, coming just one month after Ronald Reagan publicly blamed the Soviet bureaucracy for impeding the flow of emigrants to the West...
Network executives insist that they are receptive, even eager, for shows $ dealing with Hispanic characters and culture. "Everyone is dying to come up with a Hispanic show," asserts Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC. "It would be good for the Spanish-speaking population and for the network." What is needed most is a successful series that would encourage TV's favorite pastime: imitation. Says Norman Lear, whose a.k.a. Pablo (also starring Rodriguez) had a short run in 1984: "As soon as a TV hit comes along, they'll copy it 100 times...
Akhromeyev's pilgrimage was set up by Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two leaders got along so well during a meeting at the Pentagon last December that Crowe figured a longer visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...
NASA at last appears to have pulled itself together after last January's damning revelation that a special commission had charged NASA and its contractors with routinely criticizing or ignoring employees who spoke up about lax shuttle safety. Agency officials now insist that safety, and not a prescribed timetable, is its No. 1 priority. NASA knows it is fighting for its life. "If it's anything short of picture perfect, the shuttle program is going to be at an end," says John Pike, space-policy director for the Federation of American Scientists. "NASA will be chopped up into little pieces...