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NATION: Elite warriors train to counter terror and fight dirty battles 16 The Administration beefs up the military's Special Forces, but critics question whether they are ready for quick and sure action. Progress intrudes on Palm Springs, President Reagan's New Year's desert retreat. Senator Gary Hart, announcing that he will not run for re-election in Colorado, looks toward the White House in '88. New York City braces for an international literary gala...
...have underscored the need for such mobile, small-scale fighting units. As Americans abroad have become increasingly vulnerable to terrorist attacks like the Christmas-week atrocities in Rome and Vienna, Washington has recognized more than ever the utility of a quick and certain response. At the same time, the Reagan Administration has placed increased emphasis on a "new globalism" designed to assert U.S. interests abroad by providing covert and overt assistance to rebels fighting Soviet-backed regimes around the world...
Deciding just how the U.S. should go about organizing and deploying such Special Forces has provoked a fierce debate in the corridors of the Pentagon and in secret congressional hearings over the past few months. When he went West for New Year's, President Reagan took with him a secret report from the Holloway Commission, a White House task force set up six months ago to explore new ways of fighting terrorism. Next week the debate will spill into the open, as Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger join more than 100 experts to discuss...
Every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy has preferred, whenever possible, to use the scalpel of a Special Forces operation rather than the blunter tools of conventional warfare. The Reagan Administration has given top priority to building up Special Forces, increasing their budget from $441 million in 1982 to $1.2 billion this year, and the number of troops from 11,000 to nearly 15,000. At the very least, the Administration has rescued special operations from the post-Viet Nam era of neglect, which was so ignominiously exposed in the wreckage of Desert One during the failed Iranian hostage rescue...
...keep it going. Wick will jet off for Moscow Sunday to begin setting up the cultural exchanges agreed on by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva. Wedged in among the ideas on sports and arts are some new thoughts for television exposure. Wick is convinced that one of the reasons there has been no major new war for six years is the ability of people to look each other in the eye across continents and either praise worthy achievements or condemn villainous behavior. "Foreign policy is no longer the exclusive domain of the elites," he says. "Telecommunication has made...