Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cockpit of an American B-1 bomber, and this summer Admiral William Crowe ((the recently retired Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)) was on a Soviet nuclear submarine. Five years ago, that would have been unthinkable. Are you astonished at what has happened in such a short time...
MASTERGATE. The President dozes away his afternoons. A paranoid National Security Adviser travels by Stealth bomber. The true head of Government is a secretive CIA director who also happens to be dead. Larry Gelbart's fiercely funny Broadway satire lampoons events that made the evening news the sharpest comedy on TV. Joseph Daly is a dead-on George Bush, and the dialogue is an S.J. Perelmanesque stream -- debased, obfuscatory and unconsciously self- condemning. Samples: "I wonder if I might ask the Senator to stop raking over dead horses"; "What did the President know, and does he have any idea that...
...past glory, radar is facing its most perilous assault ever. All the major military powers are working on stealth technologies designed to defeat radar. The U.S. Air Force's new B-2 Stealth bomber, for example, is supposedly almost invisible to radar because its sleek shape and special composite construction tend to absorb rather than reflect electronic signals. The same techniques will soon be used to introduce stealth missiles, ships, satellites and tanks. Moreover, military designers have developed missiles and other weapons that can zero in on electronic signals and thus destroy the ships and planes carrying radar. Faced with...
Since the opening of the "MASS*ARMY*NAVY*STORE." earlier this month, Harvard has been invaded with legions of fatigues, bomber jackets and army boots...
...spending cuts. Worthy domestic-spending programs such as subsidized housing were cut the same 5.3% as pork-barrel projects like the Agricultural Extension Service. Under sequestration, the Defense Department faces a 4.3% chop, with important items like military readiness facing the same reduction as questionable projects like the Stealth bomber...