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...many, his definition of threats probably seems dangerously broad. But the Administration could be forced by practical considerations to decide which military missions are really vital, and which merely seem desirable. The Army's plain-spoken new Chief of Staff, General John Wickham (see following story), came close to warning that the U.S. has taken on more military responsibilities than it can handle. The U.S. "contingency needs," the general said, "probably exceed the force capabilities." In other words, with almost half of his 791,000-troop Army now overseas, Wickham, like many of his colleagues, feels logistically overcommitted...
Chicago bills itself as "the city that works," and anyone familiar with the way it works soon realizes that the secret to smooth functioning is regular nourishment-preferably of the green, folding variety. Examples of this approach-questionable and just plain illegal-regularly come to public attention. But last week even some jaded Chicagoans were shaking their heads over the current run of jinks, high as well as low, being aired...
...fellow to know. Says Lempke: "I've met a lot of people, because if you're on that river and catching fish, and other people aren't catching fish, then you're going to meet people." As the locals like to say, "Bing just has plain good fish sense...
...could be turned into a form of silent speech. Specifically, Fantz watched infants move their eyes when he showed them two different objects; he carefully measured what they looked at and for how long. Given a choice, he showed, babies will look at a checkerboard surface rather than a plain one, a bulls-eye target rather than stripes, and in general they prefer the complex to the simple. Says Rutgers' Michael Lewis: "Out of such elementary observations, monstrously important consequences grew...
...Salvadoran military did not see things that way. Says a senior U.S. military officer: "By our standards, the Salvadoran army is just plain bad." That criticism does not extend to ordinary Salvadoran soldiers, whom a U.S. expert describes as "physically hard, readymade soldiers who like to be told what to do." But, says the expert, "the officer corps is bewildered. There are so many things wrong, you don't know where to start to fix them...