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...There are some differences [between the two lines]," MacDonald said. "Al and Scottie are different. Scottie is more a straight-ahead player, and Al uses his moves more. C.J. doesn't have quite the shot Tim has, but he's been more of a two-way player--he plays well in both ends...
...almost limitless numbers of cable-TV channels and other more exotic services. For example, a joint venture of French communications companies has broken new ground by stringing fiber-optic cables to the homes of 1,500 telephone customers in the southern town of Biarritz and setting up an experimental two-way video system in which customers see one another while they chat...
...electronic intelligence--gathered by satellites, ships, planes and submarines--to modern warfare. Yet it is an old-fashioned human component that proves to be a critical factor. One of the multitude of subplots involves four Americans wandering the barren terrain of occupied Iceland, reporting Soviet movements on a primitive two-way radio. At first, allied analysts are skeptical about the information, but it turns out to be crucial. Here Clancy goes off automatic pilot; there are even a few romantic interludes, as if to remind the reader that the most brilliantly designed war games must depend, sooner or later...
...subsequent talks, the delegates mainly discussed economic problems. The nations of the ASEAN alliance together rank as the fifth-largest U.S. trading partner, having increased two-way trade from $967 million in 1967 to $23.5 billion last year. The Administration is delighted that these free-market nations have far outperformed their Marxist neighbors, but is concerned that since 1983 the bottom has fallen out of practically all the region's export commodities, not the least of which is oil. As a group, the ASEAN delegates called for more American investment. In response, the U.S. asked for an easing of trade...
...virtues and pitfalls of complex legislation. "There's a need here," says Anne Wexler, a former Carter Administration aide turned lobbyist. "Government officials are not comfortable making these complicated decisions by themselves." Says Lobbyist Van Boyette, a former aide to Senator Russell Long of Louisiana: "We're a two-way street. Congress often legislates on issues without realizing that the marketplace has changed. We tell Congress what business is up to, and the other way around...