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...initial Soviet reaction also involved sticks. Said Soviet newspaper Izvestia: "The Carter Doctrine is an attempt to revive President Theodore Roosevelt's 'big stick' policy. [It portends a] rapid and global interference with a view to suppressing the national liberation movement of the peoples and protecting the colonial interests of the dollar empire...
...President decided last fall to assign 100,000 men?basically members of the Marine Corps's 1st and 3rd divisions and the Army's 82nd and 101st airborne divisions?to a Rapid Deployment Force that eventually will be able to respond quickly to emergencies anywhere in the world. The force will be supplied by a fleet of 15 ships, most of them stationed near areas of crisis, and an undetermined number of new cargo planes probably based in the U.S. Total cost: about $10 billion. But the ships and planes exist only on drawing boards. The force is not expected...
...Lombardi's Green Bay Packers of the 1960s, Paul Brown's Cleveland Browns of the 1950s and George Halas' Chicago Bears of the 1940s. The Packers may have won five N.F.L. championships in seven years, including Super Bowls I and II, but the Steelers, reflecting the rapid evolution of pro football, are stronger, faster, bigger and far more sophisticated in the technical aspects of the game...
...after inflation. The President outlines defense spending through 1985 that cumulatively adds $90.1 billion more to defense budgets than would be needed simply to maintain this year's force levels. Increased spending includes money for the MX intercontinental missile and Trident submarines, and to equip the Rapid Deployment Force of some 100,000 troops that is to be ready by 1983 for use in world trouble spots like the Persian Gulf...
...announcement followed demands by professors for substantial salary increases, including a statement by 50 faculty members expressing "grave concern" over the "rapid and severe erosion of faculty compensation...