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Getting there was tough enough - through the Star Wars video intros; the apocalyptic tones of Walter Cronkite; the engaging and intelligent diversion of Moderator Howard K. Smith (Smith for President); the veritable ocean of blue carpeting and blue backdrop; the contact lenses, blond coiffure three-piece suits of the interrogators; the shampoo and hamburger ads. Then, when the talk began, there was the image of little Amy carrying "nukear" proliferation on her shoulders when she ought to be out trick-or-treating, the specter of the witch doctor loose in Reagan's mind, Carter locked up and lonely...
Many of the elements of this force are in place. The Navy has sent 33 craft, 17 of them warships, to the Indian Ocean, where they outnumber 29 Soviet vessels, twelve of which are fighting ships. Seven specially fitted cargo ships are stationed at Diego Garcia and equipped with enough supplies to keep a 12,000-Marine amphibious brigade fighting for a month. Agreements have been made with Kenya, Oman and Somalia to start construction next year of port facilities and airfields that U.S. forces can use in a crisis...
...their side of the board in the chess game they are playing with the U.S. in the area. The U.S. earlier this year negotiated agreements for access to military facilities in Kenya, Somalia and Oman; it also has close ties with Egypt and is building up its Indian Ocean fleet. That network is intended to counter the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Now U.S. military planners may have to reckon with Moscow's closer Syrian connection as well...
...enough equipment to Europe to enable the U.S. to dispatch four divisions to the Continent within two weeks, in contrast with only one division in 1976; by the improved ability of the U.S. to move forces to the Persian Gulf by placing seven supply ships in the Indian Ocean and by negotiating the right to use ports and airfields in the region in an emergency. Brown properly gave credit to the Ford and Nixon Administrations for initiating many of these efforts. After the speech he told TIME: "We're better off than we were four years...
...thousands of asteroids and billions of comets?the family of our sun." He fantasizes about large, tenuous life forms in the stormy atmosphere of Jupiter and about small, microbial ones in the reddish volcanic soil of Mars. To the space traveler, the earth is the shore of a cosmic ocean: "Recently, we have waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting...