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...more than $1.8 billion apiece, the Seawolfs may turn out to be the superduds of undersea warfare. Last week widely respected Congressional Staff Aide Anthony Battista declared that the Seawolf could not compete with faster, quieter Soviet subs and that the Navy should scrap it. Reaction to this broadside was swift. "We continue to have, by far, the finest submarines in the world," retorted Navy Secretary James Webb...
...Congressmen (New York's Thomas Downey, Wisconsin's Jim Moody and Michigan's Bob Carr) were accompanied by Anthony Battista, a House Armed Services Committee technical expert. He concluded that the facility is not designed to use the frequencies most effective for space tracking -- a point that Soviet technicians conceded. The radar is also pointed toward the northeast, where the Soviet radar gap exists, rather than the south, where much more space activity could be followed...
...Battista also found Krasnoyarsk ineffective as an ABM site: it is poorly constructed and not hardened against shock waves or electromagnetic pulse effects. "If this radar were turned on today," he said, "it would be an early-warning radar -- not a very good one." Yet it cannot be switched on soon, the U.S. visitors concluded, because the facility lacks essential electronic equipment. They predicted it will take two years to complete...
...shelter workers are skeptical that their groups can fill the gap. Deborah Battista, who works at the Harbor Me shelter in East Boston, says that Massachusetts shelters, which last year temporarily housed 34,444 women and children, could never afford to foot the bill for t.r.o. applications. "Shelters exist on minimal state and private funding," she says...
...over which Titian presided for most of his long life-he died, probably of the plague, still painting, in 1576, when he may have been anything from 90 to 95-boasted an unusual number of master artists: Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgione, Sebastiano del Piombo, Lorenzo Lotto, Jacopo Bassano, Giovanni Battista Moroni. If one includes the architects and sculptors, such as Jacopo Sansovino and the Lombardo brothers, the decorative artists, the printmakers, then the scale of the Venetian flowering is obvious...