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...Army's Rangers, are lightly equipped shock troops parachuted in to seize air bases and key installations before the heavily armored main force arrives. The Navy's SEALs (Sea, Air, Land forces) would be stealthily deployed to blow up bridges and ships. The Air Force's First Special Operations Wing (1st SOW) is set up to ferry combat troops in high-tech flying machines that can race undetected in the dead of night. But the most highly visible, politically popular mission of the Special Forces is counterterrorism. The Delta Force is trained to rescue hostages by land, the SEALs...
Rice's brother Randy said David had been influenced by right-wing pamphlets handed out on the street in downtown Seattle. In fact, the lush and rainy metropolis has recently seen more than its share of the most virulent sort of hatemongering: while charges were being prepared against Rice, a Seattle jury found ten members of the vicious neo-Nazi group known as the Order guilty of racketeering after a trial in which they were accused of murder and 60 other crimes...
...have difficulty with his conservative constituency: "The President's big dilemma is that after the 1984 election, he legitimized SDI as a symbol of the true faith. He has jettisoned five years of rhetoric about the Evil Empire; he has restored a climate of détente. But the right wing still regarded the summit as a triumph. Why? Because he didn't give away SDI. That means if he moves to trade it away in the next year or so, he'll have an uprising on his hands...
...reconstruction of the White House. Recalls Scouten: "His eyesight wasn't very good." Scouten soon found himself on Wake Island in the Secret Service advance team for the Korean War meeting between Truman and his independent-minded general, Douglas MacArthur. He was in the White House's West Wing when the flash came about the assassination attempt against Truman by two Puerto Rican nationalists at Blair House across the street. In a couple of minutes he was on the scene...
Many Japanese, however, had different ideas: fleets of sound trucks manned by Japanese right-wing activists roamed the streets, their huge loudspeakers blaring anti-Soviet slogans. The demonstrations were largely directed at the Soviet refusal to return four Japanese islands in the Kurile group, seized in 1945 and now used as military bases. This was only one of the issues separating the two sides. Perenially tense relations have been worsened by such events as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in September 1983. But although the talks seemed to be important...