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Fearful of U.S. high tech, the Soviets would ban all long-range cruise missiles. This would force the Pentagon to cancel its program to outfit B-52s with such weapons, stop the U.S. from deploying long-range ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe, and bar development of long-range sea-launched cruise missiles. Such a prohibition would rescind a concession that the Soviets had made at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks...
...residually romantic view of war (up until recently, the American view), it was an essentially knightly exercise--a man riding out in resplendent armor (B-52s, perhaps, Hueys, the light observation helicopters known as Loaches, all of that brilliant technology) to rescue the innocent ! from the wicked. In the original versions of the knightly ideal, the wicked were the enemies of Christ, a role for which Communists qualify...
...bombers poured several thousand tons of TNT onto Cambodia, resulting, quite logically, in the death of several thousand innocent Cambodians. Schanberg covered these American atrocities for the New York Times, with Pran working overtime as photographer-translator-copy boy. When the Khmer Rouge, the target of Nixon's B-52s, managed to overrun Phnom Phenh, Schanberg decided not to join the general exodus of Westerners, trusting to the aura of untouchability bestowed upon anyone possessing a Times press card and an American passport. Though Pran possessed neither of these power-laden documents, personal loyalty to Schanberg kept him from joining...
Viet Nam was a televised war, a "livingroom war," in the phrase of Critic Michael Arlen. The camera still conveys, more immediately than almost anything in print, the imagery and texture of war: whirring helicopters, cascades of bombs from the bellies of B-52s, the devastation wrought by battle. As used in the series, the camera is also a neutral observer: it provides a forum to participants ranging from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and from Americans who considered the war honorable to those who believed it immoral. Conclusions about right and wrong...
...given, but some experts who have seen the results are gravely worried. They say the B-1B has poor acceleration and little maneuverability ("Worse than the B-52," charges one critic) and that its range is less than the 7,455 miles planned. One objection to the B-52s is that because of their age it is getting increasingly difficult to keep them ready for combat. But early data indicate that the B-1B, because of its complexity, also would face severe maintenance problems. The Air Force contends that the B-52 presents too broad a "cross section" for Soviet...