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...Soviets refused to let Scowcroft deliver it at an appropriate diplomatic level. Says Harvard Professor Paul Doty, who was traveling with Scowcroft: "That was the Soviet way of saying they will not respond to an informal probe." In addition, Moscow last week deployed more than 200 ships hi the largest war-games exercise ever staged by the Soviet navy (see WORLD...
...that the loss of benefits from these programs more than wiped out their slight gains from the tax cuts. Counting only cash benefits, their losses exceeded their gains by an average of $160 per household in 1983. Families with incomes above $40,000 (14.6% of U.S. households) had the largest net gains: an average of $2,240 each last year...
Navy later maintained, there were at least 140 surface ships and 70 submarines involved in the exercises. Although Lehman could have been exaggerating the numbers to buttress his often stated case for expansion of the Navy, he left no doubt that the latest maneuvers were the largest the Soviets have ever conducted...
Such cat-and-mouse games caused another mishap last week. The U.S. frigate Harold E. Holt had been shadowing one of the largest ships in the Soviet navy, the 43,000-ton aircraft carrier Minsk, during what the U.S. described as "routine surveillance operations" in the South China Sea. Yet even the Pentagon version of the story suggested that the Holt had been unnecessarily provocative. With the Minsk dead in the water, her engines stopped, the Holt hoisted flags signaling that it was passing the Minsk on the starboard side. The Minsk hoisted flags warning the Holt to stay away...
...they were headed when their Bell 212 helicopter took off from Bogotá at dawn. The pilot had been given the top-secret coordinates minutes before takeoff, but not even he was sure of the destination. Suddenly the flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.), the oldest, largest and bloodiest of the country's numerous antigovernment guerrilla groups, was sighted in the jungle below. This time, however, the flag signified the making of history, not war. In a small clearing in the Alto de la Mesa rain forest, F.A.R.C. guerrillas and the government's representatives...