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...Asian nations have been afflicted with heroin. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are largely free of hard drugs, thanks to firm law enforcement and strongly held traditional values. China, Indonesia and the Philippines serve primarily as transit points for shipment to the U.S. and Europe. Singapore, with its draconian antidrug laws, honest and efficient police force and intensive rehabilitation programs, reports a decline in heroin addiction...
KEEPING THE double-rigs off the highway will not spell the demise of the trucking industry. In the short-haul and rapid-shipment markets, trucks will always prove more efficient than railroads, and that market will never be threatened...
...danger was that if Iraq suffered a major battlefield defeat it might decide to use the Super Etendard fighter-bombers it bought from France last fall to attack Kharg Island, Iran's principal oil terminal. Iran has repeatedly said it would retaliate by blockading the strait, thereby halting shipment of most of the oil produced by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. Last week Iranian officials warned again that if the U.S. and its supporters try to intervene in the war "their fate would be decisively worse than their fate in Lebanon...
...Weinberger was quoted as saying that he had not informed President Reagan about a Saudi request for 20 F-15 fighters because "it would be leaked to Congress and the press," thus jeopardizing the deal. According to the transcript, Weinberger generously offered his Saudi counterpart a shipment of sophisticated M-l tanks, which he said were "not in the hands of the American Army even...
Soviet negotiators had their first chance to walk out on Nov. 16, the day after the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced the arrival in Britain of the first shipment of Tomahawk cruise missiles. Instead, to put maximum pressure on the West Germans, another negotiating session was scheduled for Nov. 23, the day after the Bundestag vote. Meanwhile, one of the most curious episodes in the history of the two-year-old Geneva talks was unfolding...