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...fans love to boo Glorgio Chinaglia because he looks lazy standing alone by the adversaries' goal. But the broad-shouldered Italian forward is not lazy. He is an international star, the team's leading scorer, an artful dodger who dances through opposing defenses without soiling his crisp white Cosmos uniform with the big green "9" on the back...
...calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to identify himself," says Mair. "He looked at me, saw my uniform and my shotgun, and said, 'Howard Buddy Jacobson...
Suvorov would probably be pleased with today's Soviet military. The typical barracks is a long two-story wooden hut with beds so crammed together that they touch. The soldier's only token of privacy is a small wooden locker in which he keeps his uniform, two sets of underwear, shaving gear, a toothbrush and a few other permitted personal items, such as photos and letters. Latrines are often no more than a row of holes in the ground. Hot water is rare and usually saved for "sanitary day," when troops take their once-a-week shower. One hygienic measure...
Less than 6% of the recruits decide to remain in uniform beyond their draft term. The backbone of the Soviet military, as in most nations, is its corps of 400,000 commissioned officers and 1 million noncoms. The gulf between draftee and officer is enormous. NCOs live with their families in relatively comfortable housing either on or off base, shop in commissaries carrying special food and goods and have one month of vacation each year. They earn comparatively high wages; the Soviet equivalent of a staff sergeant with ten years of experience makes 60 rubles ($90) a month?roughly what...
...when still in high school. After passing a difficult written examination and two interviews, they enroll for five years in one of the Soviet Union's more than 150 military colleges. At graduation they become junior lieutenants. All eventually join the Communist Party and are expected to remain in uniform throughout their professional careers, even if repeatedly passed over for promotion. The best officers are sent to one of the U.S.S.R.'s eleven general staff colleges for up to three years of advanced training. Graduates of these institutes are much respected by their peers in the West. Says a West...