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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressive striking power. It has a modern force of 19 cruisers, 170 destroyers, missile frigates and destroyer escorts, and 560 motor torpedo boats. Its 360 submarines, 55 of them nuclear, give Russia the world's largest submarine fleet, far exceeding the U.S. total of 155 subs but falling short of the U.S. fleet of 75 nuclear subs...
Even that formula leaves a large group of potential captives unaccounted for. By previous rules of war, terrorists were regarded as the exception; in Viet Nam, they are the rule, waging a widespread, vicious campaign against a civilian population. Thus they unquestionably forfeit P.W. status if captured. But what, short of an Instant firing line, is to be their fate? The U.S. has decided that to be certified as a terrorist, a suspect must appear before an officer's tribunal (including one military lawyer). Then and only then can he be handed over to the South Vietnamese for civilian...
...oversize subsonic transport expected to be the domestic airline workhorse of the '70s. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. sprang to an early lead over McDonnell Douglas by unwrapping enticing plans last summer for a model (the L-1011) with twice the passenger capacity of jets currently flying short and medium runs. But last week, as teams from both rivals flew into Manhattan to make their final sales pitches, McDonnell Douglas seemed to have won the world's first airbus order...
...unlike Myra, which is redeemed somewhat by Vidal's satirical skill, these books have the lifeless neutrality of assignments thought up by publishers' accountants and carried out by literary conscripts. They not only fail to exalt, amuse, enrage, inform, misinform or anesthetize; they also fall short of truly satisfying grubbiness...
...Texas barbecue. Vance, after all, had just pacified another of our finicky Asian allies--at what must have seemed bargain price: 100 million dollars in additional Korean aid. The calculable cost may indeed have been small. But on the balance, the Vance mission is a sad reminder of the short-sighted statesmanship which has generated America's open-ended Asian commitments...