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...also benefits from advanced technology. Comparison of NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks serves as a good example of NATO'S superior equipment: although the mammoth Soviet T-62 is heavier than its Western rivals-the U.S.'s M60, Britain's Chieftain and West Germany's Leopard-it is less accurate, slower, and sports a vulnerably exposed rear fuel tank. The West also leads in developing precision-guided munitions (the so-called smart weapons) like the infantry-or helicopter-fired TOW tank killer. Still, very few of these are presently deployed on the front line of defense...
...have been some encouraging steps. Among them: a new rocket mine-laying system that will use a U.S. mine and a West German rocket, the U.S. purchase of the Belgian MG-58 machine gun, the interchangeable key components of the new U.S. XM-1 tank and the West German Leopard II tank...
...There is nothing alien about the playfulness of unguent jars shaped like animals with lolling tongues, or the alert grace of a gilded wooden statue of the goddess Selket, or the art nouveau traceries of floral patterns on a lamp and vase. A wooden seat is decorated with a leopard-spot design that has the startling freedom and bounce of Matisse's late cutouts...
...Clamma Dale, for instance, brings to the role of Bess high musical polish and dramatic intelligence, a voice of molten gold and the fierce grace of a stalking leopard. Porgy made her, at 28, an instant star; she is booked for theater, opera and concert appearances through 1978. The youngest child of a middle-class family in Chester, Pa., the incomparable Clamma learned to play the cello, clarinet, piano, saxophone and guitar guided by her father, an oil-refinery worker and part-time jazz musician. Before winning a Naumburg Foundation Award and a contract with the New York City Opera...
...onetime lawyer and part-time farmer who raises cattle and sheep, Matanzima rules in a chiefly style. On state occasions he is preceded by a "praise singer," wrapped in a leopard's skin, who shouts of great deeds, real or imagined, by "Matanzima the Mighty." Among the new buildings being erected near Umtata is a $345,000 mansion for the chief...