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...likely that the judiciary evolved into an independent institution between September 1978 and September 1979, the month in which the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court wrote the Court's opinion. Such an evolution would have required a rapid transition to democracy; obviously, no such transition occurred...
...Brown's view that "our ability to move into the region has improved enormously. We had nothing five years ago, when the U.S. depended on the Shah to protect its interests." To carry out the new policy, the Joint Chiefs produced a new command: the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDF). It consists of 250 officers and senior NCOS at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., and 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who would come under their command in case of an emergency...
Still, the RDF is not making very rapid progress because of interservice rivalry and red tape. Marine Lieut. General P.X. Kelley, the determined but frustrated commander of RDF, must spend as much time bickering with Pentagon brass as he does solving problems in the field. At the top of his list of requirements, for example, is equipment to produce large quantities of drinking water. Should his troops be dispatched to parched Saudi Arabia, each man would need twelve gallons a day to keep going. At the moment, all kinds of devices are being considered, including one that would condense water...
Rescue teams continued to search for other possible survivors in the tangled debris of El Asnam last week, but with dwindling chances of finding life. Instead, with increasing frequency, they found more bodies. The killer quake, which created an initial shock of 7.5 on the Richter scale and a rapid succession of 20 other tremors, left fully 80% of the town destroyed. The initial estimate of 25,000 deaths was later reduced by more than half. Still, with the toll already at 6,000, the El Asnam quake was far worse than the previous one that had destroyed the city...
Sources say other principal terms of the agreement include using the Roanoke Rapid's contract as a model for unionizing plants in High Point, N.C., Allendale, S.C., Montgomery, Ala., and anywhere else the union might organize. They added the negotiators are now resolving "final details...