Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadowing U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean make those ships the "sitting ducks" the Russians call them. I agree with Brigadier Hunt's analysis that our Navy is second-rate; it is old and outgunned. A World War II Navy cannot maintain the peace in the 1970s and '80s...
Fleet for the '80s. The Soviets are developing great momentum. At present, they are outbuilding the U.S. in naval vessels by the impressive ratio of 8 to 1. In addition, major Polish and East German builders are producing merchant ships for Russia, and the Soviets have ordered others from foreign yards from Japan to The Netherlands. In the frontline, high-sea naval squadrons, some classes of ship are being replaced by more advanced designs after only eight years of operational duty. The Kresta II cruisers (see picture box, next page), whose design is much admired by U.S. naval architects...
...Tokyo University, believes that he has some idea of the dimensions. Eto's projection: "The most probable course for Japan to follow will be for her to drop the growth rate [from 11.1% in the 1960s] to 5% in the 1970s. That level will be maintained through the '80s and '90s. By the final decade of this century, Japan will have caught up with the U.S. in living standards?at least in things like sewage, roads and tapwater systems. For the last 30 years of the century, Japan will continue to suffer from youth riots, urban guerrillas, environmental disruptions, parliamentary...
...distinguishable from other houses in the neighborhood. Hidden away in Orange County, N.Y., is a more appropriate setting for a Mafia boss: an extensive estate, complete with tennis courts, a swimming pool and a horseracing track. Colombo is also a skillful handball player and shoots golf in the middle 80s...
...Staff, General William Westmoreland, intoned last week at Fort Hood, Texas. The occasion was the unveiling of the Army's first triple-capability (TRICAP) division, an experiment in relating the uses of the helicopter, as refined in Viet Nam, to the Army of the '70s and '80s. Should TRICAP prove out over the next three years, it will employ tanks for shock on the ground, Hueys and CH-47 Chinooks for troop transport, and either Cobra gunships, or the new Lockheed Cheyenne missile platforms for air support. The modernized division will be assigned as part...