Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Alas, the flashy Hornet burned fuel so fast in test flights that its combat radius is now calculated at only 390 miles, about half the range of the A7. Either the Hornet would have to be refueled in flight or its carrier would have to sail closer to hostile shores than might be desirable. Test pilots have described the F/A-18's elaborate air-to-ground radar as "grossly inaccurate." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer flew one himself to check out reports of serious problems; when he landed, the nose wheel failed to come down...
...never very far from the surface. One group even boasts its own flag, a green map of Assam with a mailed fist in the center. Except for a narrow passage, the state is separated from India by Bangladesh. Since ancient times, its ethnic and cultural ties have always been closer to Burma and Tibet than to the rest of India. In tribute to their proud and independent past, the students have taken to calling their movement "the 18th war of independence," a reference to the 17 wars fought by Assam's legendary King Lachit Borphukan, who in the 1600s...
...real reason for Nkomo's detention was that Zimbabwe is veering closer to open warfare, at least in Matabeleland, where the government is conducting a savage military campaign against Ndebele guerrillas loyal to Nkomo. Led by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, government troops have reportedly killed hundreds of villagers over the past few weeks. Says Minister of State for Defense Sydney Sekeramayi: "The brigade will stay put until the dissident problem is settled...
...they draw emotionally closer in the audition, the dancers symbolically fall more and more in step. Their songs become joint expressions, not individual cries of emotion. We are watching the creation of a synchronized chorus, and by the final reprise of "One," the company taps and twirls as a single unit, their feet linked by invisible thread...