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...memo below is the smoking gun in the General Accounting Office's recent damning evaluation of the Pentagon. The Air Force issued data deceptively understating the size of the radar profile of the B1-B bomber. This Air Force ^ memo contains the accurate data (here blacked out by the GAO), along with the admonition that that information be kept from the GAO. The Pentagon gave the memo to the GAO by accident...
...said in my now-infamous article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (January 6, p. B1), by rewarding mediocrity we discourage excellence. An A should be a goal worth striving for, not something to be taken for granted. In discounting the possibility that grading policy can be used to elicit better work, Ms. Reiter demonstrates beyond all doubt that she has never taught Harvard students. Here, as elsewhere, easy grading breeds apathy...
...overjoyed either with Mondale." They too remember the days of Jimmy Carter, whose vigorous human rights campaign and unusual arms control maneuvers irked them. Mondale may be more willing to talk to the Russians than the current President, may support the cancellation of the controversial MX missile and B1 bomber and advocate a major down-scaling of defense expenditures--but he is by no means a pushover as far as the Soviets are concerned...
...crew survived, but T.D. ("Doug") Benefield, 55, the chief test pilot for Rockwell International Corp., which builds the B1, died. Benefield, a 29-year veteran of skirting the outer edge, had a cigar-chomping confidence that put him in the Right Stuff league with Chuck Yeager. The prototype, known as the B-1 A, was one of four built and one of two still flying...
...production of less expensive, less sophisticated out more mobile weaponry. While advocating a defense increase of about four percent--the same as Mondale--Hart has argued his case in terms of what the money is spent on. Hart led a 1983 filibuster against the MX missile, opposed the B1 bomber and the M-1 tank, fought for the SALT II treaty, and introduced legislation calling for a worldwide freeze on the manufacture of plutonium that could be used by terrorists to build nuclear weapons. Hart, in 1982, opposed the construction of two large aircraft carriers, arguing instead for more usable...