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A sense of relief prevailed at the sprawling headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels last week: the alliance had finally settled on a budget that seemed to ensure that U.S. forces in Western Europe would not be cut. At their biannual meeting, 14 of NATO's...
NATO Secretary-General Lord Carrington hailed the budget increase as a "considerable effort." It was news that Washington badly wanted to hear. In the event of a Soviet attack on the allies, the U.S. would send six Army divisions and 1,100 tactical fighter aircraft to their aid; the question...
Meselson expressed similar doubts about the reliability of interviews held with refugees, and he also said that no spent or unspent munition containing toxins has ever been found since reports of yellow rain started seven years ago.
The transition would span at least several quarters, partly because plants making strategic stockpile items will have to keep running full tilt for a while to rebuild war-depleted inventories. Then, after Pentagon stocks were replenished, about 225,000 jobs at munition factories would be in jeopardy. New contracts-and...
For half a century, salmon fishing has been Alaska's biggest industry -and when the summer catch falls off, the whole state suffers. This year, the $50 million salmon harvest is the worst since 1899, and the result has been woe ful. With the catch of sockeye reds and...