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...Yankee Doodle week behind the scenes-and the busiest of Reagan's planned vacation. In a series of meetings with aides and Cabinet members, the President had to explore whether he will be able to afford all the $1 trillion he has vowed to spend on the U.S. arsenal, manpower and support services over the next four years. Since the early days of Reagan's campaign for the presidency, critics have wondered how he could meet his promise to cut taxes, boost military spending and still balance the federal budget. By last week Reagan and his closest advisers...
Shortly before sunrise one day last week, a military convoy stretching a full mile snaked its way 3½ miles from Rocky Mountain Arsenal to a runway at Stapleton International airport in Denver. The four U.S. Army trucks eased up beside a pair of C-141 Starlifter transport planes. Aboard the trucks, stacked on metal pallets and tightly harnessed with black nylon webbing, was the deadly cargo. "We've taken every conceivable safety precaution," Brigadier General Walter Kastenmayer told reporters. "I have no concern that we can't do this safely...
Sophisticated weaponry aside, the most potent weapon in our nation's arsenal could well be the one designed to see that we get the most for our trillion: "Cap the Knife...
...series of events that apparently influenced Sadat's decision not to go to Austria began two weeks ago when customs officials in Vienna stopped two Palestinians whose luggage was found to contain an arsenal of five automatic weapons and six hand grenades. Intelligence sources believe that the two were members of a reborn Black September, and that their probable aim was to assassinate Sadat. The Palestinian radicals have been at odds with him ever since he negotiated a peace treaty with Israel, and their goal is to keep the Israeli-Arab conflict alive in the hope that Israel will...
...missiles, GLCMS or Glickums. These would be capable of reaching all of Eastern Europe and some of western Russia. These weapons were to counterbalance the SS-20s, which the Soviets had begun targeting on Western Europe. Without some such force, there would be a wide gap in the NATO arsenal between "tactical" or battlefield nuclear weapons, and the intercontinental weapons. The NATO TNF will not be ready for deployment until 1983. Meanwhile, the Soviets are steadily deploying the SS-20, and have about 750 warheads-each 15 times or so Hiroshima strength-in place today. In 15 minutes, these weapons...