Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government in the world would tolerate such a massive arms buildup as the PLO engaged in Southern Lebanon. That these weapons might never have been used against Israel is irrelevant. The mere threat they posed, along with repeated PLO rocket attacks and terrorist incursions, caused a massive depopulation of northern Israeli border towns. Farouk Kaddowni of the PLO called this psychological warfare, one way (albeit in stages) to "liberate Palestine...
President Reagan's election was in part a mandate to restore America's military might. The ensuing debate has been over the size of the much needed buildup: whether military spending should rise by 7% after inflation, as Reagan proposes, or closer to 5%, as President Carter and others have urged. Now the spreading suspicion that billions are being wasted is chipping away at that consensus. Most of the attention has thus far been focused on apocalyptic strategic issues: How can we best deter or fight an all-out nuclear war? Should we deploy new MX missiles...
...debate is shifting to more fundamental issues. What Spinney's briefing clearly shows is that attention must be paid not only to how much is spent, but how it is spent. According to his sobering analysis, the Administration's proposed buildup presents funding problems that go well beyond the question of how to shave $10 billion or $15 billion from this year's budget. The traditional methods of assault-whittling away at frills, stretching out weapons purchases, skimping on maintenance money-will be as futile in the short run as they are wasteful in the long...
...battle-ready fighter planes will decline in the next five years. The Navy is cutting the steaming time of its ships from 44 days per quarter year in 1982 to 42 days per quarter in 1983 and 40 days per quarter in 1984. The Pentagon's planned buildup of ammunition stockpiles has not been accomplished. A maintenance backlog that was supposed to be cleared up this year will last at least until...
...bypass surgery on Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater last year. Diethrich's co-star and patient was Bernard Schuler, 62, a retired insurance salesman, who spends his winters in an Arizona trailer park. Schuler, a smoker for 41 years, had suffered a mild heart attack in 1977. A continued buildup of fatty deposits in his coronary arteries made him a prime candidate for a more serious second attack. Schuler's physicians recommended coronary bypass surgery, in which a blood vessel, taken from the leg or elsewhere in the body, is used to reroute the heart's blood supply...