Word: wars
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...MALAYSIA. The British-trained, racially mixed Malaysian forces are composed of a largely nonmechanized army of 52,500 that is engaged in a counterinsurgency war against Malaysian Communist guerrillas entrenched near the Thai border. The army has embarked on a massive modernization program, which is expected to be completed by 1983, but the Malaysians have had no experience in big-unit warfare and would probably be overwhelmed if confronted with massed armor and artillery...
...PHILIPPINES. The 63,000-man Filipino army has had little conventional combat experience since the Korean War. Bolstered by an additional 45,000-member constabulary force, it keeps busy fighting the Muslim rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front in the southern Philippines, and the Maoist-led New People's Army mainly in Luzon and the Visayan Islands. In part because of the country's corrupt leadership, Washington analysts grade the Filipino performance and prospects a dismal Cminus...
...monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. "He wanted equal rights for Jews, a separate peace with Germany in World War I and the redistribution of land to the peasants." Some historians will doubtless question Amalrik's contentions that the legendary monk was really as good as all that. Still, in the words of the Boney M. song that is sweeping Russia, Rasputin was obviously "a cat that was really...
...part of the program that could have fairly quick impact, if Congress approves, is the creation of an Energy Mobilization Board patterned after the War Production Board of 1942-45. The energy board would consist of three members appointed by and responsible to the President. Their mission: cut red tape. The board would be empowered by Congress to select projects-the building of pipelines and refineries, the opening of coal mines-that it deemed essential to expand domestic fuel output. It then could waive procedural requirements for endless hearings imposed by a maze of environmental, safety and other laws...
John Paul Austin. Rowed on the U.S. Olympic crew in 1936. Graduated from Harvard Law. Decorated as a World War II Navy lieutenant commander. Caught the eye of legendary Coca-Cola Chairman Bob Woodruff, who recruited and groomed him. Became chief in 1966. Earns in the high six figures. Is a buddy of fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter. Taught himself passable Japanese. Works in an Atlanta eyrie among Oriental antiques and photos of his handsome wife. Spends more than half his time traveling, largely to the 135 countries where Coke does business. Has a rather radical idea: the whole world...