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...ousted from city hall in West Berlin in May. An amorphous left-wing coalition, including important members of his own party, is impugning some of Schmidt's most firmly held policies. Chief among them: Bonn's commitment to the 1979 NATO decision to deploy U.S. missiles to strengthen Europe's military security while at the same time seeking arms limitation through negotiations with Moscow...
Faced with the erosion of détente Schmidt is trying to strengthen his country's already formidable defenses-its 340,000-man army is considered by far the best in Western Europe-at a time when many of his countrymen think that it is hopeless even to think of opposing the Soviet juggernaut. NATO forces are outnumbered by the Warsaw Pact nations more than 2 to 1 in divisions, better than 3 to 1 in tanks and a frightening 8 to 1 in medium-range nuclear missiles. Logistics experts fear that NATO forces would start running short...
...small group, righteous as its cause may be, prevail over other interests that may affect the well-being of far more people, even that of the whole country? The resource is molybdenum (moly, as friend and foe both call it), a strategic metal used not only to strengthen steel but to make fertilizer, rubber, lubricants, plastics and paints. Just three miles from Crested Butte's Main Street, deep inside 12,414-ft. Mount Emmons, lies buried what may be one of the richest molybdenum deposits in the world, worth some $4 billion...
...sortie rankled European governments as well. Most ruffled were the French, who supplied the Iraqis with the reactor, who lost a technician as the only reported casualty of the raid and whose newly elected Socialist President, François Mitterrand, had declared his willingness to strengthen ties with Israel. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "I am saddened. This government has a great deal of sympathy for Israel, but we don't think such action serves the cause of peace in the area." In her typically blunt fashion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summed up the view of many others: "Armed...
...increase training, strengthen teamwork and lengthen time horizons, American corporations are going to have to adopt management practices that dramatically cut turnover rates. If America wants a loyal labor force interested in raising productivity, layoffs have to become the last, rather than the first, resort when a firm is facing difficult economic times. Incentives will have to be structured to give the biggest economic prizes to those...