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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sidewinders and Sparrows are the bread and butter of America's air-to-air fighting capability: the $59,000 Sidewinder missile can zoom toward targets within an elevenmile range at twice the speed of sound; the $169,000 Sparrow missile is able to hit a target 31 miles away. But according to Frank Conahan, an investigator for Congress's General Accounting Office, one-quarter of the Navy's and Air Force's Sidewinders and one-third of their Sparrows are "unserviceable." Conahan's congressional testimony last week was just another in this year...
...hardship has erased the unique and often inspiring Polish identity. While camping in southeast Poland, one evening I huddled inside a warm log cabin with a group of other campers while rain poured. We sipped vodka prepared the traditional way: a mound of sugar on a small piece of bread melted over the liquor turning it light brown. A man played Polish folk songs on the guitar. Forgetful for the moment of the vodka's expense, the small group exchanged pleasantries that revealed an enduring commitment to national autonomy. One joke suggested just how long the Poles are prepared...
...ECONOMY & BUSINESS, June 25] that paid super-wages gave Americans the opportunity to buy automobiles, homes and furniture, take vacations and send their children to universities. Even without skyrocketing interest rates and a federal deficit out of control, low-paying hospital, fast-food and custodial jobs will hardly put bread on the table. The Remarkable Job Machine will backfire and spew out all the miseries of poverty for America. Richard T. Baurmann Humble, Texas
...Union Street becomes one of San Francisco's most sophisticated shopping areas, with a pricey mixture of antique shops, clothing boutiques and luxury delicatessens. Some of the best bread in the city comes from II Fornaio bakery. The neighborhood supermarket. Jurgensen's, stocks fresh beluga caviar and Maui onions. Says Alain Assemi, owner of a French and Italian women's clothing boutique: "Union Street is the Rodeo Drive of San Francisco...
...private U.S. messages to his Soviet bosses, urging talks on the subjects of superpower tension. At the White House, during a dinner for the diplomatic corps, Dobrynin was served some of Bob Herdman's boneless strip sirloin barbecue, pinquito beans, salsa, marinated artichoke hearts and toasted, buttered sourdough bread. Dobrynin got an all-American message: good fellowship with peppers...