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...Army is also being challenged about the survivability of its Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, a cannon-equipped personnel carrier. A Pentagon memo made public past week, written by a colonel well acquainted with the vehicle, criticized the Army's failure to submit the Bradley to realistic tests. The $1.5 million vehicle is clad with aluminum armor that some critics claim would vaporize when hit by high-explosive antitank projectiles, creating a deadly fireball inside the fuel-and ammunition-laden tank. The manufacturer claims the tank's armor "does not burn when hit." So far, the Army has refused...
...Reverend Jackson will be working closely with me," Mondale declared. "We will be campaigning together." Jackson promptly headed to Virginia, where he met with 13 Southern state party chairmen who told him he would be welcome to campaign in their region. Despite fears that Jackson could become a loose cannon, Mondale's aides clearly prefer the prospect of working along with Jackson to any alternative...
...spirits soar. The former Vice President gleefully awarded T shirts imprinted with I SURVIVED AIR MONDALE to those who had made the trip, and read a "wimp list" of correspondents who had begged off doing so. His aides led weary reporters in a stir-crazy version of the Wabash Cannon Ball...
...similar incident last week along the West German-Czechoslovak border, U.S. officials were less confident. A U.S. Army HueyCobra on an observation mission there was the target of rocket and cannon fire from a MiG warplane of "unknown nationality...
...attacks. The bottom corner of each page of the book bears a printed blood-red splotch, symbolizing glorious martyrdom. There are photographs showing the Ayatullah in the midst of adoring Iranian masses, and crude political cartoons depicting a crumbling Star of David or a malevolent Menachem Begin loading a cannon with shells provided by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A message emblazoned on the back cover reads: WHY DO WE WANT TO LIBERATE JERUSALEM? WE CAN DO IT THROUGH THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BAATH PARTY...