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...basic reason for the Navy's current crisis over new ships is that the ships have grown incredibly complex and their costs have soared. A Spruance-class destroyer costs $134.2 million; its World War II destroyer counterpart was only $5 million. The price tag on attack submarines has risen from $3.9 million in 1946 to $284 million...
...self-made millionaire lawyer-businessman, Strauss, 59, mixes Machiavellian tactics with mirth, backslapping with cool competence. As chief U.S. trade negotiator, a job he will retain, he demonstrated his unusual bargaining techniques in Tokyo earlier this year when he grabbed his Japanese counterpart, Nobuhiko Ushiba, in a Texas bear hug and bellowed, "Brother Ushiba, you're crazy as hell...
Radcliffe's junior varsity also bowed to its counterpart from Tiger land by 11 seconds, with Cornell once again holding up the rear. "The power just wasn't there," J.V. cox Liz Friese commented. "Princeton beat us off the start, stayed smooth, and kept on moving...
...days earlier, Weizman had written to his Egyptian counterpart, War Minister Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, urging that the two meet to review the results of the recent and unsuccessful talks in Washington between Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and President Carter. Gamassy referred the proposal to Sadat, observing that he was not sure whether the Egyptians should meet with any Israeli officials while the Israeli armed forces were still in southern Lebanon. Sadat overruled the objection, noting that Weizman had emphasized in his letter that the Israelis were getting ready to pull out of Lebanon, and that that was good enough...
...fastest match of the night, Sal D'Agostino pinned his 190-lb. counterpart from Lowell before either wrestler worked up a sweat. D'Agostino raised his record to 10-2 by taking down the Chiefs' Bob Milliard into a pinning combination and flattening Milliard's shoulders in 40 seconds...