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Most serious of all is the fact that more than 1 million heavily armed, well-trained troops are arrayed on both sides of the DMZ: 625,000 in the South and 467,000 in the North (see map page 40). The Korean forces, combined with huge Soviet air and naval installations in Vladivostok, just 40 miles from the border, with perhaps 1.5 million Soviet and Chinese troops facing off at the Manchurian border and with a lethal U.S. nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, put the Korean peninsula at the center of what may well be the most intensively militarized region...
...nation can escape the burden of history. For Egypt this includes the burden of Nasser's terrible act of shattering a condition of relative stability eight years ago. The traumatic effects are still at work in Israel's mind. The peace map must be constructed with precision and care so as to avoid the vulnerabilities of May 1967. This means negotiation. When does Sadat propose to look an Israeli leader in the face and reach a common human understanding...
...palpable sign of the quid pro quo exacted by the Soviets for its Black Sea fleet can be seen on any map of the Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...
...former prisoners, he and his friends were able to exchange information about the West that they got from foreign shortwave radio broadcasts. He also contrived to get copies of Popular Mechanics and Scientific American at the ruble equivalent of about $25 apiece. "In my Moscow office, I kept a map of New York," he adds. "I traveled the streets in my mind, just as I had in prison...
...Yale had released a map purporting to show that the Vikings discovered America. "They came out with this story just before Columbus Day, and we haven't forgotten it," Vellucci declaimed...