Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this trust in the Armed Services Committees, of both houses justified? Probably not. The leading advocates for change, the "Congressional military reform group" motivated by Senator Hart of Colorado, feels that defense priorities must be brought into line with what history tells is important in winning and therefore deterring wars. The senator, a leader of his group, in an article in the New York Times Magazine in February, states his belief that the current "fire power attrition" strategy first used in World War I is the choice of Defense in fighting wars of the future. The group feels this...
...Libyan planes and helicopters, with some of them taking part in Tripoli's intervention in neighboring Chad in 1980. He is also suspected of peddling sophisticated American electronic equipment to Middle East countries and attempting to sell U.S. computer technology to the Soviet Union. Investigators in Colorado have linked him to a former Green Beret who shot a Libyan student in Fort Collins two years ago. Federal grand juries in several cities are looking into his activities, and more indictments are likely this summer...
Vicki Hamer University of Northern Colorado Greeley, Colo...
That statement triggered the fury of Colorado's Republican Senator William Armstrong. "I'm dismayed by the conversation that has taken place here," he said. "My colleague from New York on the Senate floor has demagogued this issue from front to back and top to bottom and he is trying to do the same here," he said. "You've tried to emotionalize what should not be an emotional issue. We have done everything to avoid making this a partisan issue," Armstrong declared, just before charging that the proposal for the $40 billion cutback originated with the Democrats...
...boom again. You just wait till gasoline goes up a few more cents a gallon. Oh hell yes, they'll be back." Local people still hope that Parachute and Battlement Mesa will not become ghost towns like Silver City and Russell Gulch, which prospered only briefly during Colorado's gold and silver rushes...