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...scene is a future battlefield. On the ground, driverless tanks advance and fire with deadly accuracy, while insect-like vehicles scurry across all but impassable terrain. Overhead, pilots guide their aircraft by talking aloud in the cockpit and aim missiles with the movement of their eyes. Higher still, orbiting jets blast satellites back to earth. All this is surveyed from computer consoles by commanders who refine their strategies and issue new orders as the fighting rages...
...known as the DIVAD. In a test last year, the gun's laser-and-radar guidance system could not even hit a stationary helicopter, one of many embarrassments for the problem-plagued system. This time, claimed the contractor, Ford Aerospace, the weapon destroyed "six of seven high-performance aircraft...
...Republican Congressman Denny Smith of Oregon, a veteran pilot who flew 189 missions over Viet Nam. Smith pointed out that the unmanned planes used in the $54 million test came in higher and slower than they would in a battle. Worse, when he investigated further, he learned that the aircraft were in fact exploded by remote ground control within seconds of each firing from Sergeant York. Smith believes that the gun never actually hit the drone planes. The Army says that the rapid-fire shots came close enough to destroy the aircraft and that the remote-controlled blasts were used...
...treaty prohibits member nations from acquiring nuclear explosives, testing atomic weapons and dumping nuclear waste. But individual countries will decide whether to allow ships or aircraft equipped with nuclear weapons to cross their territories. New Zealand's ruling Labor Party has refused to allow port calls by nuclear-powered or -armed warships. Last week Prime Minister David Lange said he plans to introduce legislation before the end of the year to make the ban permanent. EL SALVADOR The Bishops' Bleak Warning...
...kept his government's focus almost exclusively on arms control. Repeating Soviet proposals for sweeping reductions in nuclear weapons that the U.S. regards as promising but deceptive, Shevardnadze issued what amounted to a dare to the U.S.: "Are you ready, as we are, to scrap hundreds of missiles and aircraft, thousands of nuclear charges? Say yes and we shall certainly be able to agree on verification." Shevardnadze also renewed the Soviet demand for abandonment of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly called Star Wars. Said he: "The Soviet Union is proposing a world without weapons in space...