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...looming military crisis. After Israeli air and naval forces attacked Palestinian positions near the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon in retaliation for a terrorist attack near Jerusalem's Western Wall, an Israeli pilot was captured by the Shi'ite Amal militia. At week's end, as Israeli troop strength was beefed up on the Lebanese border, the fragile national unity government in Jerusalem hastily closed ranks and angrily demanded the captive flyer's return. "We must remain alert," declared Shamir. "There must be no wavering...
...addition, the Soviets still have a substantial advantage in conventional-troop strength in Europe. After 13 years of bargaining in Vienna over Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, there are signs of progress, but the imbalance is not soon to be rectified. Thus NATO must still rely on medium- and short-range nuclear missiles to deter a Soviet attack...
Patrick Massengill, a Pentagon cartographer, kept things in order with twelve pages of script and 34 maps that boiled a long day's fighting down to 2 1/2 hours. Troop movements were as accurate as history and conjecture could make them, but deaths, desertions and the like were left to the inspiration of the combatants. Said Massengill: "There is a lot of ham in these people...
...large firm "associates do the absolute dregs of the work-- six months at a time in a warehouse looking through documents." Following an increasingly well-worn path, Jason fled his big firm in 1984 for a smaller shop, in his case the 32- lawyer firm of Hill Wynne Troop & Meisinger, where, he says, responsibility comes sooner. His conclusion: "All the stuff you put up with at the large firms is not worth...
...same speech, Gorbachev dangled the prospect of another kind of troop reduction. To help create an "atmosphere of good neighborliness" with China, he said, the Soviets were considering a "substantial" withdrawal of troops from Mongolia and are willing to discuss joint force reductions along the Sino-Soviet frontier...