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...east of Damascus. Colonel John Moser, commander of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing at Little Rock, replied that "99 times out of 100" the warnings are caused by equipment failure and "there is no need to evacuate until you're told to evacuate." Moser was quickly overruled by Lieut. General Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., vice commander of the Strategic Air Command, who advised Verser that "a prudent thing to do would be to leave." Said State Senator Stanley Russ to Air Force officials: "People in my district don't believe one thing...
...embassy officers that he wanted to defect. It was the first such move by any of the estimated 85,000 Soviet military personnel who have occupied the country since last winter's invasion. Before long, the mysterious enlisted man had become the most prominent Soviet military defector since Lieut. Viktor Belenko flew his MiG-25 to Japan in 1976. The defection sparked off an international row and added an unpredictable new irritant to already testy U.S.-Soviet relations...
...strategy starts with a well-baited hooker. Her name is Elene Fontana (nee Abigail Asnani), a 23-year-old Jewish courtesan who-after the characteristic Follett sexual intermezzos-rises quickly to become the star of the Wolff hunt. One of Vandam's problems is his toffee-nosed superior, Lieut. Colonel Reggie Bogge, who spends most of his time polishing a precious cricket ball and refusing to accept his subordinate's theory of the spy's existence. Vandam's pursuit is also thwarted by the Egyptian nationalist movement, which would prefer a German occupation to continued British...
Says the commander of the RDJTF, Marine Lieut. General Paul X. Kelley: "We have a global mission, but our focus is on the Persian Gulf." Since some of the units available to Kelley are not sufficiently trained and equipped for combat and most are based in the U.S., the force would have to be quickly whipped into shape and airlifted to staging areas mear the combat zone. There it would "marry up" with equipment and supplies prepositioned on ships now cruising off Diego Garcia, a British-owned island in the Indian Ocean some 2,500 miles south of Hormuz...
...cope with fear? No less bellicose a personage than Lieut. Colonel George S. Patton Jr., 32, found himself trembling before a battle. Then he thought of all his martial ancestors looking down upon him. "I became calm at once," he recalls, "and saying aloud 'It is time for another Patton to die,' " he strode forward into a hail of fire. Brigadier John Seely turned his mind to boyhood sayings-"Death is better than dishonor" and "By Faith ye shall move mountains"-before leading a do-or-die attack. Once engaged in combat, men were often too absorbed...