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FOUNTAINS, little marble statues in the lobby--this is the Fountainbleau Hotel. Call the reservations desk: "We have rooms for $65, $75, $85, $95 and $110 a night. For $110 you get an ocean view and a personal terrace." Gold paint everywhere, lots of brushed velvet, ornate, a little seedy, built to lure opthalmologists and funeral directors and Republicans from the North...
...Though she went off looking for permanence, Arthur discovers that she is a connoisseur of flux. The lake evokes her keenest descriptions: during a storm "the water was stirred every few minutes by a gigantic sweep like the slap of a hand." On a sunny day "the lake is ocean blue, throwing back the face of the sky and then catching it again...
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski believes that the U.S. and its allies can still head off disaster. "The area I once called the arc of crisis [the northern and western rim of the Indian Ocean] may well be the focus of our major effort in the 1980s to enhance geopolitical stability," Brzezinski says. "Between 1945 and 1955, the major thrust was in Western Europe and the Far East. From 1955 on, it was in assuring overall strategic stability vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. It is very likely that in the 1980s we will be involved in an unprecedented effort...
...Soviet-American military balance in the region. The U.S. has negotiated agreements with Somalia, Kenya and Oman for access to their ports and airfields in a crisis. Borrowing vessels from its Mediterranean and Pacific fleets, the U.S. Navy has stationed two nuclear-armed aircraft carrier groups in the Indian Ocean and a five-vessel task force in the area of the gulf itself. In March the Pentagon announced the creation of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, a reservoir of more than 200,000 troops from which the President could draw an instant expeditionary force...
...most are based in the U.S., the force would have to be quickly whipped into shape and airlifted to staging areas mear the combat zone. There it would "marry up" with equipment and supplies prepositioned on ships now cruising off Diego Garcia, a British-owned island in the Indian Ocean some 2,500 miles south of Hormuz. The U.S. has leased base rights on the island...