Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargaining chips for SALT II: the B-l and the Trident submarine. Experts agree that neither weapon is an immediate military necessity; for example, the Air Force's durable fleet of 527 B-52 bombers, which the B-l would replace, is expected to remain effective into the 1980s. SALT I thus lends support to a recent Brookings Institution forecast that the first $100 billion U.S. defense budget could arrive...
...1980s, and the first manned spacecraft from earth has finally landed on Mars after a five-month journey. The television camera shows two figures poised on the bottom rung of the spacecraft's ladder, ready to set foot on Martian soil. Simultaneously the two men take the women tous step and in rapid succession make their historic statements - one in Eng lish, the other in Russian. Indeed, bilingualism is symbolic of the entire mis sion. For man's first voyage to Mars is a dramatic undertaking involving both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...development of a remarkable new generation of atomic power plants called breeder reactors. Named after their capacity to produce or "breed" more fuel than they consume, breeders have already been built and operated experimentally; they could, if technical flaws are overcome, help meet U.S. energy needs by the mid-1980s. But other scientists believe that breeders are a direct threat to the environment and to human life. Thus, when President Nixon recently declared that the construction of breeders was an important national goal and authorized work on a second demonstration plant, he added fuel to a growing, though...
...very busy displaying raw military power on the northern flank," reports TIME Correspondent John Mulliken, who recently toured the region. "It is a significant example of how the Soviets intend to use the pressure of their operational armed forces to achieve their political policies in the 1970s and 1980s...
Subtitled "The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World," Percy's new novel is a rather abrupt departure from the past. The scene is the South. The time is the 1980s, when current polarizations have reached logical conclusions. If the reader's heart sinks upon being confronted with another futuristic novel, it must be said that Percy takes his projections with agreeable lightness. In Love in the Ruins, the population is split into small enclaves of like-minded dissidents: blacks v. whites, knotheads (conservatives) v. liberals. Even the Catholic Church...