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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEFENSE. China's military force is hardly a match for the Soviet Union's 43 divisions and 100,000 crack KGB troops that confront the Chinese along a 4,500-mile frontier. China's air force relies on the aging MiG-21 as its front-line interceptor and on the ancient TU-16 and the Il-28 as its penetration bombers; its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry...
...about these characters because they are mere types, devoid of life. We are supposed to be moved when we see Victor's devoted Chinese girlfriend (guess what she does for a living?) help him expand his vocabulary. We are supposed to be elated when Victor wins the final wrestling match against Freddy the Thumper, gangster Stitch Malone's obnoxious henchman, and the three brothers embrace--past disputes forgotten for the moment. What we are, however, is bored...
Missing three fencers from last year's A-1 quartet due to graduation, the Crimson women had little chance to test their new mettle against the inept, unskilled Rhodies. As Captain Kathy Lowry discovered after a somewhat sluggish start in the opening bout of the match, easy victories required no more than straightforward quick lunges with no fakes...
...accounted for 31 per cent of property crimes (such as burglary), they commited 60 per cent of the robberies, 40 per cent of the aggravated assaults, and about half of the murders and rapes. Were black crime merely due to discrimination by the police, the black crime rate would match the Hispanic; Silberman demonstrates how blacks account, proportionally, for far more violent crime than Puerto Ricans in New York or Chicanos in Texas, groups at least as poor and condemned as they...
Intercontinental makes a practice of putting up units that reflect their surroundings. In China, the Intercontinentals will all have different designs that match their neighborhoods. The Chinese themselves, says Intercontinental Chairman Paul Sheeline, want modern hotels, "but they don't want them to have what they consider to be unnecessary facilities." Most of these, however, are what Westerners would consider minimum requirements for civilized travel. So the company compromised: it gave up on nightclubs, but insisted on providing bars, small swimming pools, modest health clubs and perhaps a couple of tennis courts...