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...punch that Mikhail Gorbachev stepped up to be counted with the U.S. Japan came through pretty well; more is expected. The President knows he must recast relations with Israel, design new approaches for Syria and Iran. And those are just the tasks that he faces over his Eastern ocean horizon. At his back and underfoot is his own nation, supportive and giving for the moment, but restive and argumentative and feeling the strains of a new age dawning...
Stone's is the first of 15 famous faces -- interspersed with gripping footage of felled redwoods, fish deformed by ocean dumping and smokestacks belching black clouds of toxins -- that appeared in a half-hour television ad seen this summer throughout California. The program was designed to build support for "Big Green," the most sweeping of four environmental initiatives that will go before state voters this November. By then they may be scratching their head trying to keep the proposals straight...
...increased to 50,000 soldiers and Marines and 200 aircraft, including F-16 ground-attack fighters and A-10 antitank planes. Marine units are being flown to the Persian Gulf from the U.S. There they will meet two prepositioned supply ships already under way from Guam and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. These ships contain everything necessary to fully equip a Marine brigade of 17,000 men. This includes 45 tanks, heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers and food, water and fuel for 30 days...
...means of delivering a devastating counterattack. Strategic B-52 and B-1 bombers based in the U.S. and on Diego Garcia could lay down carpets of high explosives on Iraqi targets. They would be supported by F-14 interceptors and attack planes from the U.S. carriers in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Those ships are more than 600 miles from Iraq, out of range of Iraqi jets and Exocet missiles, which in 1987 badly damaged the patrolling frigate U.S.S. Stark, apparently accidentally, and killed 37 of its crew. The carrier-based planes would be refueled...
...long ocean journey, the Army maintains that it is safer than lengthy transport by trucks or trains. An Army study shows that a shipboard accident would spread a lethal nerve-gas cloud no farther than 52 miles, but that may be little comfort to the 1,200 residents of Johnston Island, which is only two miles long. The Army concedes that terrorists could try to sabotage the cargo, but it minimizes the threat. As a precaution, however, it will not disclose just when the two ships carrying the chemicals will set sail or give any hint of the course they...