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...late one night this fall, and the soldiers were sleeping. Suddenly alarms began to sound across their bases on the Golan Heights. By the hundreds, members of the Israel Defense Forces spilled out of their barracks, speeding toward their assigned tanks. Engines roared to life, maps were unfurled, and within minutes two full tank brigades were rolling out. The armored leviathans rumbled to the Syrian front and onto ramps built long ago as battle stations, many of which were overgrown with weeds from disuse. Once there, the troops parked and waited, peering anxiously into the night for the Syrian attackers...
...response to Assad's moves, the Israelis have increased their intelligence gathering and are planning and rehearsing their responses to a Syrian offensive. In addition to taking regular troops through their paces, as in the two major tank exercises held recently, commanders are perfecting plans to call up reserves, who make up the bulk of the military. In headquarters across the Golan Heights, the lights scarcely go out any more as officers work through the night...
...moment he is several hundred miles south of Hollywood, filming at the Mexican beach town of Rosarito on a 40-acre site dominated by a massive 750-ft.-long re-creation of the ship--a hulking shell built almost to scale. It rests in a 17 million-gal. tank, and will be lowered into the water by degrees. Tonight's shoot takes place on the poop deck, which can be tilted as much as 90[degrees] by hydraulic lifts. This is one of the film's more harrowing sequences, at least from a production point of view: a couple...
...because centimillionaire Steve Forbes discovered the joy of politicking. Forbes says Dole's 15% tax cut didn't catch on because Dole failed to stay on message. "If you don't hammer that proposal consistently, it becomes fuzzy," Forbes says. He will stay in the game through his think tank, a required accessory for any serious candidate, and may run again in 2000. But don't count on Kemp. Fellow conservatives are turning against him for declining to play Dole's attack dog. Kemp has been telling friends that he expects to spend the year 2000 at his condo...
...Republican moderates have started to talk about establishing an institutional counterweight to the right wing. Their analysis is familiar. The candidates most likely to win presidential elections can't get past the conservatives who control the party's nominating processes. So they want to start a centrist think tank and cheering section modeled after the Democratic Leadership Council, the group formed in the 1980s to keep the Democrats from veering left on every issue. "All I want to do is enable the party to get back on course," says five-term New York Representative Amo Houghton, who is promoting...