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...report, which the radio agency attributed to the Reuters news service's Warsaw bureau. Danuta Walesa cited her husband's fears that Communist authorities would prevent him from returning to Poland, the spokesman said...
Hand-carried, cheap (average cost: $150) antitank rockets, which are now standard equipment for every infantry squad in the Warsaw Pact armies, rip through the Bradley's aluminum armor like a welder's torch. Unlike steel, the aluminum vaporizes and burns, adding immense heat to the explosion inside and producing a fireball. That is not a theoretical danger. The M113 also is made of aluminum, and M113s carrying Israeli troops went up in flames in Lebanon. During the invasion, Israeli troops rode on the exposed areas of the M113-not inside it. Since the Bradley is designed...
...count on considerable help from sister security organizations in the East bloc. After World War II, the KGB organized intelligence networks in all the satellites. KGB liaison officers are still posted in the security services of each Warsaw Pact nation. Some intelligence experts believe that the KGB may have taken direct control of the Cuban security apparatus...
...Kremlin can sometimes buy technology through intermediaries, "false flag operations." U.S. export restrictions prohibit the sale of sensitive equipment to the Warsaw Pact nations, but the Soviets have found willing channels abroad. West European businessmen will buy the desired hardware and export it to dummy European companies, which then reexport it to the Soviet Union. Austria and Switzerland, with relatively lax controls on imports, have become favored trading posts. Says an executive from one Silicon Valley company: "If every piece of equipment shipped to Vienna stayed there, the city would sink...
...with Curtis, Wouk quickly learned how stringent TV's narrative requirements are. "Only 15% to 20% of the material in the book is on the screen," he notes. "The film medium can say a lot more in a hurry. The attack on the refugees fleeing from Cracow to Warsaw was built sentence by sentence in the book in order to engage the reader's imagination. In a few seconds on the screen, however, you have flames, zooming planes, horses rearing, people falling...