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...naval superiority with a nuclear carrier resembling the Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America's B-1B. Two new fighter jets being developed by the Soviets, the MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker, are to contain high-tech radar and weapons-guidance avionics like those...
...Afghanistan. The Pentagon study estimates that the Soviets now have 105,000 troops there, up 30,000 since the invasion three years ago. It also charges that they have violated international treaties by using chemical weapons and "scorched-earth tactics." The Soviets have even deployed their brand-new Su-25 Frogfoot attack plane, designed to provide close air support in battles. Nevertheless, they have been unable to control the Afghan countryside. Says the study: "After more than three years, the Soviets find themselves embroiled in a counterinsurgency campaign that cannot be won with current force levels...
...Nicknames for Soviet planes are assigned by NATO officials. Bombers are dubbed with words beginning with B, such as Blackjack and Backfire, and fighters are labeled with an F, sometimes bizarrely, as in Foxbat and Frogfoot. The MiG and Su designations refer to two major Soviet design bureaus and honor the late Engineers Ar-tem Mikoyan, Mikhail Gurevich and Pavel Sukhoi...
DIED. Lao Su, 57, infamous, elusive Chinese-born opium warlord of Southeast Asia's poppy-rich Golden Triangle; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a Thai border patrol as he was leading a heroin caravan out of his remote refineries in Burma...
...party to the John D. Benefactor Memorial Auditorium and thence, baffled applause still ringing in his ears, back to the Holiday Inn." Did Updike, invited by the Franklin Library, once agree to sign 20,000 volumes of Rabbit Run on the island of St. Thomas? Bech is lured by Su-perbooks, a subsidiary of the Superoil Corp., to autograph 28,500 sheets, at $1.50 each (Updike was paid a bit more), to be bound in pigskin into a special limited edition of his novella Brother Pig. The assignment carries with it an all-expenses-paid two-week working holiday...