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...failure of the intermediate-range (1,000-mile) Pershing II has politically important ramifications. The first 108 missiles are to be deployed in West Germany beginning 22 months earlier than originally planned, in late 1983. The rush is in order to counterbalance the growing Soviet arsenal of intermediate-range SS-20 missiles. If the missile has a serious problem-design refinements have increased the program's projected cost by 56% since last year-West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt could be embarrassed. Moreover, American negotiators now bargaining with the Soviets over such nuclear missiles might find their leverage weakened...
...local shops, buying up Port Stanley's supply of postcards and objects carrying the Falklands' motto, "Desire the Right." One storeowner has already sold out a supply of watches and jewelry that would previously have lasted half a year. Meanwhile, Britain announced it would relax the 200-mile "total exclusion zone" imposed at the height of the Falklands crisis. But Britain, still wary of Argentina's intentions, asked that country's military ships and aircraft to stay 150 miles away...
Late in the week, fighting continued a mile or two inside Iraqi territory to the east of Fish Lake, the site of an Iraqi victory a few days earlier (see box). The Iranians are still hoping to break through the Iraqi positions and advance quickly to Basra (est. pop. 500,000), an important oil center that lies 280 miles from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. But Iraqi officials suspected that the attacks in the vicinity of Basra might be a diversionary tactic aimed at distracting the Iraqis from a larger and more serious threat to the north. If the Iranians should...
...centerpiece of the U.S.-European dispute is an ambitious 3,000-mile, $10 billion pipeline through which the Soviet Union hopes to deliver up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from its Siberian tundra, over the Urals, across the wheatfields of the Ukraine and through Czechoslovakia, all the way to the homes and factories of Western Europe. The line was scheduled to begin operating as early...
...only when I looked down and saw the floor did I know that we had done the trick." Actually, what the Flying Vazquezes accomplished together on July 10 in Tucson was much more than a trick. It was an athletic feat equivalent to the breaking of the 4-min. mile: the first quadruple somersault performed before a regular circus audience...