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...Inaugural planners, working out of an aging, two-story World War II building, professed confidence that the capital would not be overrun by huge crowds, although the six Inauguration Night parties would, as usual, offer little room for dancing. Nonetheless, major hotels are requiring four-day minimum stays at the standard $50 to $60 per day for two people. Those wanting limousines can get them for up to $250 a day but have to rent them for a minimum of five days. For the less affluent, there are free tourmobiles and shuttle buses...
...reduce this uneasy dependence on nuclear weapons, NATO'S members- adopted in 1967 a strategy of "flexible response." This doctrine calls for NATO first to employ conventional forces against an invader. But if peace negotiations should fail or it appears that West Germany will be overrun, the American President would authorize the use of tactical and then perhaps strategic atomic arms...
...able to resist the barbarians. Disease, rather than religion, also lay at the roots of India's caste system, according to McNeill; its rigid rules developed as the country's Aryan invaders sought to protect themselves from the diseases carried by the people whose lands they had overrun...
...general's land, illusion -along with cold steel and bribery-is one of the foundations of absolute power. Even the livestock that eventually overrun the palace cannot tell the real from the fictional. Observes one foreign diplomat: "The hens were pecking at the illusory wheat fields on the tapestries and a cow was pulling down the canvas with the portrait of an archbishop so she could...
Public Maulings. The days of free-and-easy anonymity are over for Travolta. On his Bus Stop tour he lives like a recluse in his dressing room. The last time he tried to take a date to a disco, the place was overrun. "I don't think any girl could take my schedule now," he says, quite accurately, and claims to have no steady girl friend. He was mobbed by 5,000 fans at a Cleveland record store recently. At the world's largest indoor shopping mall at Schaumburg, Ill., outside Chicago, an estimated 30,000 engulfed...