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...visitor from Washington who has been swallowed up for a few hours in this cobalt fantasy world, the 14 officers and 115 men of the U.S.S. Atlanta-also known as SSN 712-seem to be the only collection of Americans not complaining, or demanding some thing from their Government. They are serving their country, and serving it well...
...master of surreptitious sophistication who is portrayed in the Italian press as brooding, moody, uncommunicative and withdrawn-a Heathcliff with Magic Markers-Armani sets a fast pace and a high level of good humor and good will with his 26 employees. A trim, quick figure of medium height, with cobalt eyes, he is all compacted energy, like a jack just popping from his box, as he shows up for work around 9. He may begin his twelve-hour day by doing sketches, while his staff sorts out a regimen that, typically, has no rigid schedules or fixed appointments. Buyers...
...obsession with preparing for a war in Europe to counter more varied threats. Weinberger often speaks of the U.S. as an "island nation" heavily dependent on imports of strategic materials. For example, 90% of the chromium needed for jet engines comes from Zimbabwe or South Africa; 90% of the cobalt vital to mining and machine tools is imported, mostly from Zaire. All are vulnerable to Soviet troublemaking or internal difficulties that could shut off supplies. The most serious threat is to the Persian Gulf oilfields, which supply 40% of the free world's imported petroleum. When the Soviet invasion...
Reagan has given the General Services Administration $100 million to start buying as many as 15 materials for the National Defense Stockpile. In addition to high-temperature metals used in jet engines, such as cobalt, titanium and columbium, the Government will consider buying oddities like sisal fibers, a key ingredient for rope; castor-bean oil, a high-quality lubricant; and pyrethrum, an insecticide. While the amounts are not yet great, they represent a new direction in policy. Said Congressman James Santini, a Democrat from Nevada, "This is both a substantive and symbolic beginning. It's long overdue...
Rebuilding the stockpile, however, is likely to run into some serious foreign policy complications. The U.S. has become dependent on the countries of southern Africa for seven key materials (platinum metals, manganese, chromium, cobalt, industrial diamonds, fluorspar and antimony). The U.S. gets 53% of its platinum from white-ruled South Africa, for example, and 42% of its cobalt from black-run Zaire. A pronounced policy tilt toward either country could antagonize the other and thus endanger supplies...