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...THAILAND. Like most of the ASEAN forces, Thailand's 141,000-man army is designed for counterinsurgency and internal security. Its forces have not fought a major battle for about 150 years, although a few Thai units saw limited action in Korea and Viet Nam. While the Thai soldier would give a good account of himself if his country were invaded, he would be hamstrung by inexperienced leadership and unsophisticated weapons. The country's arsenal consists mainly of 149 aircraft and 150 U.S.-made M41 light tanks. On order are 149 British-made Scorpion reconnaissance vehicles that...
...major problem is not financial but environmental. Extracting oil from shale is thought to be the greatest pollution threat. Thus, the toughest environmental battles will probably rage in Colorado and other shale-rich Western states, which have generally strict pollution-control laws. There will also be local resistance to coal gasification and liquefaction plants because they pollute the air with fumes from burning and lead to a noisy, dust-spewing increase in rail traffic to bring in the coal. On the other side, labor unions and various local groups will be eager to attract synfuel plants-particularly in Appalachia-because...
Melodramatic as the battle of Oporto may have been, it was largely anticlimactic. Major whalers are already in retreat, having suffered a stinging defeat two weeks ago at a London meeting of the International Whaling Commission (I.W.C.), which overwhelmingly voted to ban hunting of all whales (except the still numerous minkes) by factory ships on the high seas; only coastal whaling will be permitted. The I.W.C. also approved creation of a whale sanctuary in the Indian Ocean...
That hoary male chauvinist putdown, "She throws like a girl," will never be applied to Crystal Fields, 11, an outfielder for the Phillies in the Cumberland, Md., Little League. In the annual Pitch, Hit and Run competition before the major league All-Star game in Seattle last week, Crystal became the first female to win a championship when she outpointed seven boys in the finals of the nine-to-twelve age group. One of two girls on her Little League team, Crystal has been a stalwart-this year she's hitting .528 and getting on base...
Haydn: The Seasons (Soprano Ileana Cotrubas, Tenor Werner Krenn, Bass Hans Sotin, Brighton Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati conductor, London; 3 LPs). This is Haydn's other major oratorio, structurally less cohesive and dramatically less powerful than The Creation, but a work in which the aging composer set out to demonstrate all that he could do in a wide range of styles and forms. In other words, a compendium of glories. The text, from James Thomson's panoramic poem written in 1730, inspires passages of musical landscape painting, evocations of the hunt, human scenes of yeomen...