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These special requirements created their own delay. The jet has 57 antennas for its huge array of electronic gear. Normal is 17. The plane's 238 miles of wire is more than twice that in a commercial version. The big delivery delay occurred when Boeing engineers in Wichita, after installing...
But Sakharov was not quite finished. He handed Gorbachev a handful of cables supporting the abolition of Article 6, which grants the Communist Party a monopoly on power.
"You come see me," snapped Gorbachev. "I'll give you three files with thousands of such cables . . ."
Communications back in Washington were not much better, in part because the Bush Administration did not follow a crisis-management practice from the Reagan era: immediately convene the senior deputies of the Defense and State Departments, the CIA and the National Security Council to compare information. Moreover, Bush, a former...
Thomas E. Vautin, administrative director of operations, said the trees are regularly treated and that several have cables reinforcing the joints formed by the branches. But he added that it is only a matter of time before the trees are gone.