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...some SDI was a bargaining chip for getting real agreements; for others it was an excuse to militarize space before the Soviets could; for still others it was a plausible pretext for breaking the antiballistic-missile treaty. Hardly anyone believed the pure-and-simple defensive-shield story that had been sold to the American people in, appropriately, a television cartoon. Hardly anyone, that is, but Reagan. To the horror of those around him, Reagan -- with the amiable way he has of thinking he can sell anything so obviously good as his own intentions -- began to bargain away all ballistic missiles...
COLUMBIA (77): Sean Couch 9-2-21; John Vaske 0-0-0; Guido Casparis 7-0-14; Mike Shannon 3-2-9; Chip Adams 6-7-21; Trever Holland 2-0-4; Tony Childs 0-1-1; John MacPhee 0-0-0; Joe Campanella 0-7-7. Totals...
...complaints rise that the Japanese are cheating on the deal, the semiconductor pact is in danger of unraveling. Moreover, a panel of experts investigating the military's chip supplies has concluded in a report to the Pentagon that only major Government intervention can save the U.S. chipmakers. The report recommends that the Defense Department invest some $2 billion over the next five years for research and development in chip-building technology. Says Martin Marietta President Norman Augustine, who chaired the advisory panel: "If we don't do this or something akin to this, the U.S. semiconductor industry will...
Faced with the imposition of sharp punitive tariffs, Japan signed the semiconductor trade agreement on July 31. But any hopes that the new accord would settle the conflict were quickly dashed. When the prices of Japanese chips sold in the U.S. began to climb, U.S. chip buyers objected, and some began threatening to take their manufacturing operations overseas. Meanwhile, slower sales abroad created a chip glut in Japan, driving Far East prices as much as 50% below the agreed-upon "fair market" values. Result: a boom in illicit roundabout sales. Large numbers of low-priced Japanese chips turned...
...University of Alabama in Huntsville, physicists last month placed a chip of a green, brittle compound inside a thermos-like container, doused it with frigid liquid nitrogen and sent an electric current through it. As the temperature dropped, they took careful measurements of the compound's electrical resistance -- its opposition to the passage of current...