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...lack of a line poses grave problems forRestic's. Already confusing and complicatedenough, the Multiflex cannot work unless theoffensive unit is perfectly in synch. Giardi has ahost of options on each play, but he won't be ableto exercise any of them unless the proper blocksare made. Even Hirsch--tank that he is--can't runthrough the trench without some assistance...
...Soviet Union, the only capitalist was the state. It owned everything from the ice-cream kiosks on city streets to town-size tank factories. One of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's toughest challenges has been to transform the government's monopoly into a free market, and to do it equitably. "We need millions of property owners," he says, "and not just a handful of millionaires...
...Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argues for arming Bosnian irregulars, who are badly outgunned by the Serbs, much as Washington helped the Afghan mujahedin. Colonel William Taylor, senior military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, thinks an air attack on power plants, fuel tanks and military posts in Belgrade could take the heart out of the Serbs' fight. Others advocate an allied threat to destroy any Serbian plane, tank or piece of artillery that moves...
...would not be able to wage tank warfare, as in the Middle East...
Among the more creative schemes: Beach had the government procure a refurbished World War II PT boat and dock it on the Potomac at the Washington Navy Yard. Eisenhower would be rushed by limousine -- one of two onyx-black Cadillacs with a tank engine under the hood -- to a prearranged point on the river, where the PT boat would be waiting. After sailing safely past the blast zone, the President would be met by Secret Service agents and driven to one of three underground command posts. The PT boat, as well as an ultrasensitive underground command post at his Maryland...