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...lack of push among recent efforts, and morale is terrible." Nonetheless, Britain last year sold an impressive $1.5 billion in arms, accounting for about 8% of world transfers. Frigates, submarines and fast patrol boats went to Latin America. Iran bought more than 1,000 Chieftain and 300 Scorpion tanks. Black Africa, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have shown considerable interest in the Scorpion, a light aluminum tank with great mobility...
...lack of sanitation that kill their children. Outsiders affect their lives too, now--Buc, the barber who joined the NLF when he learned that the Saigon government was encouraging men to grow their hair long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than it should, since Rubin at his subtlest is pretty elephantine), that these and other people...
...return, the Saudis have agreed to provide France with about $50 billion worth of oil over the next 20 years. Britain last week was completing delivery of twelve Westland Mark I commando-carrying helicopters to Egypt, and British salesmen are now trying to interest Saudi Arabia in some Scorpion light tanks...
Before Cavalry Captain Mark Phillips married Britain's Princess Anne he made it clear that he did not mind if she did the driving. A good thing too Last week a dithered Phillips climbed into a 17,500-lb. Scorpion tank at the Royal Armored Corps driving school in Dorset, started up, signaled left and turned right. Granted, it was his first week of training to be a tank-driving instructor, and he soon gained mastery over the 14 gears. "I'm starting to enjoy this," he said. When the three-week course is up, however, Mark will...
...crews also suffer from severe paranoia. Constantly aware of the Thresher and Scorpion disasters, they sometimes become obsessed by the danger of the crushing pressure of the sea around them; when that happens, submariners often prowl about the craft hunting for leaks in the 6-in.-thick steel hull. Crewmen also begin to worry inordinately about friends and relatives on shore. The Navy tries to soothe their fears with "familygrams"-radioed messages received when the sub surfaces. But that strategy sometimes backfires. One man learned halfway through a cruise that his six-year-old son had been seriously injured...