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Peking's ground forces are not in much better shape. While Chinese-produced rifles (based on the Soviet AK-47) and grenades are of high quality, artillery and antitank weapons lack modern infrared and laser aiming devices. Most of China's tanks, moreover, are copies of Soviet products that are at least a generation old and no match for the powerful new T-72s that the Russians are beginning to deploy along the tense, 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border. Even Peking's atomic force lacks punch. China has 80 nuclear-tipped missiles, but only...
There were 92 officially scheduled shows, up to ten a day for ten days. The fashion follies packed every hotel in Paris, attracting 130,000 visitors, including more than 4,000 U.S. buyers. With blaring rock music, laser-beam lighting, nightlong partying, topless models, onstage horses and at least one fistfight, the City of Light became Hollywood-sur-Seine...
...edgy, nasty place, a theater of disaster populated by grotesques. The white paper takes on the look of Manhattan's 42nd Street in summer, bombed out by midday glare. Whores, bums, flint-faced Irish cops, frazzled black pimps, rats, crocodiles up from some imagined sewer, sirens emitting Technicolor laser blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs on its back?this, in Steinberg's ironic eye, is the American dream street (our equivalent of the Di Chirico piazza...
More promising may be the improvements in the precision-guided U.S. weapons, like the so-called smart bombs that are literally steered to targets by television, laser beams and other means. With their pinpoint accuracy, they could stop many of the Soviet tanks that would spearhead a Warsaw Pact invasion. Although the critical guidance mechanisms of these new devices still do not work well when bad weather or smokescreens limit visibility, Collins was certain that "we will solve these and other problems, and the Russians know it." He feared, however, that "if we are going to have a crunch with...
...Museum of Fine Arts, featuring an exhibit of Rembrandt etchings. Beware--the MFA is closed on Mondays, but open every other day. Other points of interest: The Gardner Museum and the Museum of Science. While at the Science Museum, stay for evening shows in the Hayden Planetarium of a laser musical, Lovelight, and what is billed as a laser light spectacular. These will be showing all week; call the museum for times...